Anime

[Meh]

Bible Black.

[Jimmyzilla]

Can you narrow it down a bit? genre etc? I find it hard to list stuff without some clue to narrow it down (as oppossed to others who can reel of a list of marmite titles from 2 genres )

Uhh dramas I guess, anything where you could imagine it being in any other media and not losing anything really...

[Dandy_Sephy]

As predictable as meh's reply always is, I can never stop finding it funny...

[Meh]

I'm just hoping someone blindly orders it based on my recommendation, sits down with the family, pops the DVD in...

[JohnC]

I saw it being reposted on Usenet recently and actually laughed, thinking of Meh's efforts. No, I didn't download it.

[Dandy_Sephy]

I'm just hoping someone blindly orders it based on my recommendation, sits down with the family, pops the DVD in...

We can only hope

[Mr.Jeff]

Uhh dramas I guess, anything where you could imagine it being in any other media and not losing anything really...

Honey and Clover maybe? ef - a tale of memories has one sort of ridiculous point depending on how you see it but that's also quite good. Mahoraba is a particular favourite of mine as well even with it's semi-childish art syle though it's more rom/com than drama. There's also True Tears which is reasonable and the Ghibli movie Whisper of the Heart which I didn't really like personally. Also, I guess you can include Paradise Kiss which meh loves but I despise so take from that what you will.

You could also try checking out Makoto Shinkai's other stuff like Voices of a Distant Star and The Place Promised in Our Early Days.

Or if we're going for meh-isms, look for Boku no Pico.

[Meh]

Oh, man. The goggles.

[Dandy_Sephy]

Uhh dramas I guess, anything where you could imagine it being in any other media and not losing anything really...

Aha, I think my suggestion would be Maison Ikkoku (if you think you can manage a hint of romance). It is fairly long though (95eps iirc)

[Jimmyzilla]

Honey and Clover maybe? ef - a tale of memories has one sort of ridiculous point depending on how you see it but that's also quite good. Mahoraba is a particular favourite of mine as well even with it's semi-childish art syle though it's more rom/com than drama. There's also True Tears which is reasonable and the Ghibli movie Whisper of the Heart which I didn't really like personally. Also, I guess you can include Paradise Kiss which meh loves but I despise so take from that what you will.

You could also try checking out Makoto Shinkai's other stuff like Voices of a Distant Star and The Place Promised in Our Early Days.

Or if we're going for meh-isms, look for Boku no Pico.

I've seen Makoto Shinkai's other stuff and it's why I was specifically asking for stuff not scifi/fantasy related (or childish), I want to look for the kind of anime that you could show someone to validate it as a form of media...if you get what i mean......?

[Jack]

So, episode six of Gundam 00 then;

LINDT YOU CUNT

[Mr.Jeff]

I've seen Makoto Shinkai's other stuff and it's why I was specifically asking for stuff not scifi/fantasy related (or childish), I want to look for the kind of anime that you could show someone to validate it as a form of media...if you get what i mean......?

So you're looking for a drama of some kind that can essentially maintain itself realistically enough to compare it to other series of the same type from western live actions? Is that right? Something that has the same kind of high quality as normal tv series do?

If you're looking for something like that, there's nothing I personally can name straight off the top of my head although Honey and Clover probably comes reasonably close although even that has some random moments. Possibly Paradise Kiss as well but I've forgotten most of that so I'm not apt to make a comparison.

Perhaps one of the others can think of something to match your description but I personally can't think of any series that captures real life in a high quality enough fashion to make it comparable. Then again, my personal tastes don't really go for those kind of series so it could well be there are many series like that and I've just avoided/missed them.

Edit:

So, episode six of Gundam 00 then;

LINDT YOU CUNT

Proper dick he is. Almost as much as Smirnov's son. "Oh shit, it's a girl! I'm totally going to impress her with my skills then do her!" Major lols at Saji shooting at his own woman too.

[FargalEX]

I've seen Makoto Shinkai's other stuff and it's why I was specifically asking for stuff not scifi/fantasy related (or childish), I want to look for the kind of anime that you could show someone to validate it as a form of media...if you get what i mean......?

Check out some films by Satoshi Kon - Tokyo Godfathers, Millennium Actress, Perfect Blue.

[Dandy_Sephy]

I finally finished my rewatch of the first season of slayers (only managed to identify one of my cels ) and now I'm losing my Gundam Virginity to 00's first season.

Daybreak's Bell Although naturally the Tv Size isn't as good as the full version. It's got yukihiro's great drumming and tetsu's driving bass line, but it's missing ken's great solo

[Kyouma]

So, episode six of Gundam 00 then;

LINDT YOU CUNT

His chances of dying after being that much of a cunt have gone up by 80% now, at least.

[Jimmyzilla]

So you're looking for a drama of some kind that can essentially maintain itself realistically enough to compare it to other series of the same type from western live actions? Is that right? Something that has the same kind of high quality as normal tv series do?

If you're looking for something like that, there's nothing I personally can name straight off the top of my head although Honey and Clover probably comes reasonably close although even that has some random moments. Possibly Paradise Kiss as well but I've forgotten most of that so I'm not apt to make a comparison.

Perhaps one of the others can think of something to match your description but I personally can't think of any series that captures real life in a high quality enough fashion to make it comparable. Then again, my personal tastes don't really go for those kind of series so it could well be there are many series like that and I've just avoided/missed them.

Well not necessarily drama but serious i guess, basically something that is comparable to it's live action equivalent (and good:P)

[Arctic Feather]

Well not necessarily drama but serious i guess, basically something that is comparable to it's live action equivalent (and good:P)

You could try Patlabor 2? Read about it on wiki here. You don't need to have seen the first one.

Thinking about I really want to rewatch it now, haven't seen it in years

[Jimmyzilla]

Isn't that with mechs and everything though?

[Arctic Feather]

Isn't that with mechs and everything though?

Yeah, there are mechs in it, but it's not as action-y as the first film. To be honest you're probably not going to get a recommendation from me without mechs, it's pretty much all I watch anime-wise.

[Cocky]

From what I've watched of it Flag also features mechs but to a limited degree and is in every other respect grounded in reality. And if you want to get truly mundane there is always Human Crossing which is a collection of stories about turning points in peoples lives.

[JohnC]

How are the Gundam IGLOO OVA series? I saw that someone reposted the first two series (3 OVAs each) on the high seas and upon looking stuff up, it turns out there is a new 3 part OVA series recently started. 2 Gundam shows at once So, are they worth checking out?

[EDIT]

Crikey, turns out they are all-CG jobs.

[Jack]

They're not that good. It's just more soul-less milking of the One Year War era.

[Meh]

If Jack says NO to Gundam, you know something's wrong.

[JohnC]

[Djx]

Subbed episodes of Naruto Shippuden to be streamed online in the US one week after it's Japanese airing at:

http://naruto.viz.com/

Should be an interesting experiment.

[Dandy_Sephy]

er what? Surely they need to show the other 80 odd episodes first? Oddly enough they aren't even using Shippuden footage for that video (at least nit in the first half)

[Djx]

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-...japanese-airing

The North American anime distributor Viz Media has announced that it will begin streaming the latest episodes of the Naruto Shippūden anime sequel within a week of their Japanese broadcast premiere — for free — on January 15. The next latest episode will be added with English subtitles every Thursday thereafter.

In addition, the official Naruto.com website will stream the first eight episodes of Naruto Shippūden for free on January 2. The website will add eight more episodes every Friday thereafter until all of the earlier episodes are online. Naruto.com is already streaming the episodes of the first Naruto ninja action series, and its ad-supported streams are available to users in the United States and Canada...

Update: Viz Media has confirmed, as TV Tokyo's press release announced earlier, that the Joost and Hulu video services will also stream the Naruto Shippūden episodes for free at the same time as Naruto.com will.

Website streaming seems to be a positive step forward in allowing fans to watch legally subbed Naruto eps.

Hopefully other companies and their animes will follow too.

[Dandy_Sephy]

ah right, thats rather mental (in a good, completely unexpected way)

[Kyouma]

After finishing SDF Macross and DYRL, i've watched Plus and Zero. Both were totally different from Frontier and the original, a lot more "magical" so to speak and "trippy".

In regards to Zero,

what I didn't grasp was what the birdman protoculture technology the UN and the Anti-UN forces were fighting over exactly was, and what its intended purpose was. Also, the entire Mayan people, their history, and their voodoo magic and its relations to how human life evolved on Earth.

[Meh]

Tell me you loved the shit out of Plus. TELL ME.

The concert scene alone is wibble-tastic in its amazingness.