Help me love anime the way you love anime!!

bum · Post by **bum** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 6:46 am

If you want to enjoy anime like I do then find a hentai irc page with a good colection, free one hand from the computer and start inducing friction. Iether that or waste your money on a load of it during random times of the week, then watch one whenever you least feel like it.

Misformurmur · Post by **Misformurmur** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 8:28 pm

Solaria735 wrote:Just as a side note... while I'm sure that you can find an anime you'll really like, why does it sound like you're trying to FORCE yourself to like anime?

Well, in a way, I am trying to force myself to like anime. While I don't hate it, I find it a little diffucult to enjoy on the level that real anime fans enjoy it. I want that!

Also, I am enamored with AMVs and the org, however I find it hard to create AMVs because I don't like anime as much as others on the org. I want to create and have fun creating just like everyone else. In short I find inspiration from anime difficult, if I could find one I really liked it could become easier for me, and thus, my AMVs would be better than they would be if I didn't like the medium I was working in.

Does that make any sense?

M.

someperson · Post by **someperson** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 7:38 pm

Dear sir...you really don't want to enjoy anime on the same level as real anime fans. I don't care if you said you did in the last post.

But it is understandable that you would want a good medium to work with. If you can't find an anime that you like then maybe try a live-action movie that you like. [/i]

Rurounikeitaro · Post by **Rurounikeitaro** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 7:47 pm

Oh gosh!! Your in a dilemma man!! You need at least one good anime to get you in. I have one great suggestion that I don't think, but know will get you back into anime.

Full Metal Alchemist

51 episodes of pure bliss!

After the first 10 episodes you will be hooked, or I'll give you a cookie "I don't have any cookies in my snack draw so I know you'll be hooked!!" Really, this anime is just awesome to the 10th degree.

Chibi_Riku · Post by **Chibi_Riku** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 7:59 pm

What about Bleach?

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 8:27 pm

Ah, this is an interesting problem. Though I'd also say don't force yourself; things "click" for different people. Which you probably know.

Anyway, I'll second/third/tenth Cowboy Bebop; it's The Anime That Even People Who Don't Care for Anime Like. Trigun is another action-scifi-drama with more slapstick/chibification in the first half.

Hellsing, maybe. Horror/action. It's been ages since I saw Vampire Hunter D; that might serve too.

thinkthinkthink. Well, many of your parameters remind me of a friend of mine who says Samurai Champloo is really good. I haven't seen more than one episode of that yet.

Though I love Revolutionary Girl Utena right up there with oxygen, I wouldn't recommend it for a relative anime newcomer; it's fairly stylized and oblique. Though if you've weathered Sailor Moon the saucer-eye thing might not faze you. It's a psychodrama-soap opera with swordfighting and arty, indirect direction (like... a long, lingering shot on a random object that Means Something if you think about it).

As mentioned, Serial Experiments Lain is a recent classic of serious anime. Very, very, very abstruse but interesting to watch.

I think I'm tapped out there. Though yes, finish X if you get a chance!

Misformurmur · Post by **Misformurmur** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 11:54 pm

someperson wrote:Dear sir...you really don't want to enjoy anime on the same level as real anime fans. I don't care if you said you did in the last post.

Your opinion is noted. Thank you.

Misformurmur · Post by **Misformurmur** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 11:56 pm

I'm sorry the last post posted here for some reason. I was trying to post somewhere else and I guess things just got mixed up. I'm so very sorry.
M.

EmilLang1000 · Post by **EmilLang1000** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 5:29 am

Bleach is okay, but it's a fighting Anime. There ain't much of a deep plot involved in ANY competition/fighting Anime. For the newer ones, yes, Bleach is good, but in the broad spectrum of all anime shows, it doesn't really cut it. Maybe the only one made in the past few years worthy of being considered a "great" Anime is Fullmetal Alchemist.
If you wanna get into REALLY good Animes, look for the ones made BEFORE 2001.
This includes:
Cowboy Bebop
The Slayers
Ranma 1/2
Gundam (Wing, 0083, 0079: The 08th MS Team, Stardust Memories, Zeta, 0081)
The Vision of Escaflowne
Trigun
Neon Genesis Evangelion
X
Robotech: The Macross Saga
Princess Mononoke
Cardcaptor Sakura
Sakura Wars
Tenchi Muyo!
Urusei Yatsura
Akira
Ghost in the Shell
Macross Plus
That's really just a small list, but for those of us who got into Anime in the early through mid-90s, these were some of the only Animes we had access to, mainly because they ARE the best of the best, and these were the only shows American studios would make money on.
Again, Bleach is okay, but it's really only a matter of time before it and Naruto go the way of DBZ (which, through the Cell Saga, at least, was awesome... I'd recommend that as well, just for the whole mindless action stuff).

Undertow · Post by **Undertow** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 5:41 am

If you like a bit of emotional anime, and with a hint of Sci-Fi, then i suggest SaiKano. A great series, although very depressing sometimes, but truelly great in my opinion. You might also like Outlaw Star and Madlax, and just about anything that was made by Bones (Scrapped Princess, RahXephon, Wolf's Rain).