What's your fav anime, and why? [split]

The Origonal Head Hunter · Post by **The Origonal Head Hunter** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 4:57 pm

Hellsing is my favorite.
It has a decent storyline and the actors' voices are nice. It has everything I like to see in an anime: Guns, blood, vampires and a girl with a rack bigger than her head (

). Also through almost the whole anime, Alucard maintains a sick sense of humor that provides comic relief through it all.

KagomeSakuraMoon · Post by **KagomeSakuraMoon** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 2:52 am

I'll agree with PrettySoilderSailorMoon,about why I love Sailor Moon. But its hard to pick just one,I'd have to say anything by Yuu Waste because her work and stories are great,beautiful art work wonderful story every manga/anime she does is a work of art to me!! But I love Inuyasha as well because a the great art work and story but than again she always does great work I think Inuyasha is her best work so far because of the story how she use folklore and history to paint a wonderful picture! *CLAMP gets love too for many reasons*

MysteryGirl1991 · Post by **MysteryGirl1991** » Sun Dec 18, 2005 9:34 pm

mine would be naruto.theres a lot of action and emotions in it.i think its pretty cool how they make the signs with their hands and i luv the story.

beau kang · Post by **beau kang** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 11:07 pm

I would say that my favorite anime of all time would be Teknoman. It was a series that appeared on UPN some 10 years ago, only showed about half of the full series, and never finished it. It was an awesome space story about a lone warrior with the same abilities of the space aliens. He was almost like Ironman with his armor, but constantly stuggled with his identidy and his love for a comrade. There were constant twists during the story, and it was surprisingly dark for when it was released. Check it out, it's also known as Tekkaman in Japanese.

Heero_Yuy84 · Post by **Heero_Yuy84** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 12:52 am

Said it in the list before, I'll explain here.

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam is prob. the one anime that's been a major experience for me.
After CN first started running the original Mobile Suit Gundam, I was pretty solidly hooked into the Universal Century. Then, when 9/11 hit and they cancelled, was kind of high and dry for a while there. They'd cut off the series just before the arrival of Lalah Sune and the Battle of A Baoa Qu...
So, while exploring on p2p servers, I found the first few episodes of Zeta. Initially just watched out of curiosity (at the time, I hadn't heard about any of the story for the series.) I was curious by what I saw (esp. when I saw them making references to the first series (such as Bright returning and whatnot).)

So, intrigued by all of this, I hunted down more of the series and did the background research about the storyline. Suffice to say, I fast found myself getting caught up in it in a good way. Once I got hold of IRC, I was really flying on the final arc of episodes, eagerly waiting to see the finale (...and getting choked up the first time watching it.)

Seen quite a few series come and go, but this one still has the best emotional attachment for me...in part cause of the path it took to get there.

RevanSigma · Post by **RevanSigma** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 4:27 pm

Hmm.... definitly Cromartie High School for its slick sense of humor and the random cartoony bull**** that shows up when you least expect it. Ha! Mechazowa's teh best.

Thrawn05 · Post by **Thrawn05** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 4:51 pm

Oh damn, that's a hard question.

Ah! My Goddess is pretty high on my list mainly because I like the twist. Unlike Tenchi or Love Hina, where the conflicts come from within the group, in AMG the conflict comes from the outside.

I could go on with a long list of the anime that I think are "the best", but I'll save you all the trouble.

tak3thatback · Post by **tak3thatback** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:07 pm

Trigun! I got into the series mostly after seeing an amv of Trigun to Bon Jovi - "Wanted Dead or Alive"

I think Trigun has a great storyline. Also, one moment there is rondomness and the next there is seriousness. Plus, the whole western feel is pretty cool.

RevanSigma · Post by **RevanSigma** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 7:43 pm

Ha! Vash's long life dream is to work at a Dunkin' Donuts. Heh, jk

KingSchwill · Post by **KingSchwill** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 8:00 pm

That's a tough one I mean you do leave it completely open. If I was looking for something intellgent and strange, Lain. Something unpredictable and refreshing, FLCL. Something Disturbing and cute, Elfen Lied. Mindless and violent, Fist of the North Star. Well thought out Violent, Berserk. Old school and kitchy, Astroboy. Epic and involved, Howles Floating Castle. I could go on and on, in fact the only mood I haven't found the prefect anime for is drunken playfulness.
But all that aside, the grandaddy of Anime for me would be

Drumroll please

AKIRA

First, last, best anime for me.
Saw it when it first came out in the theaters oh so long before many of you were born, back in the stoneage us relics like to call the "80's."
Violent, epic, fast paced, beautifully animated, intreging characters, and an end that left you going WTF. Every anime I watch to this day is judged on that standard. Now some of you kids may talk shit about the way it looks and how it ends, but to me it represents everything about anime that I love. It was like a peek into another world. The ideas were so different then anything my smalltown logger kid mind known. It hinted at a larger world then just wake up, go to the mill, work, drink, sleep, repeat. I felt for the first time the touch of the outside world. It was more real then all those hollywood moves and TV combined.