Anime: tell me what to watch

[Shoboy]

Ok, here is a list of what I already own, or have seen more times than I can count.

Ergo Proxy
RahXephon
Trigun
Basilisk
Ninja Scroll
Ninja Ressurection
Golgo13:The proffesional
Ghost in the Shell
Akira
Macross
Vampire Hunter D 1 and 2
EDIT
original Hellsing and the OVA up to todays date

Alright, PLEASE keep these few things in mind when you think about what to tell me to watch:
1) I HATE subtitles. If it aint in English, even a piss poor dub, FORGET IT :p:
2) I HATE stuff like Narruto, Sailor Moon and DBZ. I dont mind it if the "hero" is a kid, but I'd much rather watch something that is not made for the sunday morning cartoon crowd.

Yes, I love me some VOLTRON, but I want something a bit more mature, like how Bassilisk and Ergo Proxy are. I dont want something that's only emotional and phylisophical, but if it has some action to it then it's cool. I like story and character development, but I need me some action to help move it along. RahXephon was like this, drama and some WTF is going on mixed with some cool fight scene's and atmosphere. But if I want a drama I'll watch The West Wing or ER and sh** :lol:

I am renting this stuff from Netflix, so if you have that and have gotten some good stuff from it, then you'd be able to toss me some suggestions real easy! I can also get stuff from BlockBuster too, online and the store, so dont count that out if you know they got something..........

I dont really care how it's animated, new, old, realistic looking.....it's all cool to me. But I do try to stay away from stuff that looks like that dumbass Bo Bo Bo BoBoBo thing that was on cartoon network......... god I hate that dumb stuff........ Trigun is a good example of how I'll "tolerate" the childish type of animation, it had the characters' eyes bulging out when they got scared or something, and some of the guys were 15 feet tall with crazy weapons, but it was done "ok", not overly drawn for the sake of being overly drawn. But enough to convey the message of the characters feelings at the moment..... or how they are being percieved as standing out in a crowd (if I'm making any sense).....

Thanks for the help guys/gals :thumbup:

[Kalbrecht]

Have you watched Cowboy Bebop yet? It's good. Hellsing? That was pretty good.

I'll put up more as I think of them :-)

[chip5541]

Full Metal Alchemist.
Elfen Lied (warning: Very gory and adult situations)
FLCL (wild, crazy and great music)

[Shardos]

actual japanese versions of dbz are great. and I personally HATE english dubbing in anime. If it's not in japanese, it'd better be a damn good job dubbing it for me to watch.

[draco7891]

Blue Gender
Samurai 7
Samurai Champloo
Grenadier
Full Metal Panic
Appleseed
Jin-Roh
Princess Mononoke
Anything by Studio Ghibli
Last Exile
Geneshaft
Xenosaga

Berserk
GANTZ (be careful with these two, the stories are great, but the animes were done in concert with the manga, so the pacing is off (and Berserk ends at the best part evar!!!!))

If you're not ready to watch subbed anime, you're not ready to watch anime. The ONLY (only) dub worth watching is Cowboy Bebop. You must learn, young Padawan, that subs are your friend. The horrid corporate enterprises that snatch up perfectly good series and mutilate them with mottled Midwestern dreck are very, very bad at reproducing either the intonation or cultural references that sometimes make all the difference in understanding. They instead choose to hack whole parts of the script out (and usually to the tune of the Ethics and Standards Dept.). You are formally warned.

Draco

[Chylde Roland]

Add my votes for Cowboy Bebop and Elfin Lied. I'll also add Rurouni Kenshin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rurouni_Kenshin) to the list. Like Bebop, it's also a very well dubbed series, imho.

I picked up the entire series (95 episodes on 12 DVDs) on eBay for a really good price. Some of the shows were obviously filler, but there's a story arc with a villain named Shishio (voiced by Steve Blum, to perfection) that made buying the entire series worth it.

EDIT: wanted to add the Get-Backers as well. That was a pretty good series.

[Shoboy]

Draco, even though I know stuff gets lost in translation, and that corporate america rapes the original anime, I will NEVER read a movie, TV show or anything like that. I cant watch it and read it at the same time, and no matter how good something is, I cant rewatch it again to get the whole thing, like trying to read it once then watch it again and piece it together myself, I just cant do that.

Reading sub's completley, in every way, ruins the movie/show for me. Does not matter what it's about or how cool it's done, if I have to read the thing and have all the dialog in some foriegn language, I wont even bother............

Hell, watching Kill Bill at the few parts pissed me off bigtime. Some sub's for short dialog is ok, but anything more than 1 minute, I turn it off and never bother again.

[Terry Penrod]

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I've known a lot of people who also hate subtitles Shoboy, my own brother for one. Never had any problem with them myself but have noticed that the more action-oriented and visually sweeping a film is, the harder it is to watch all the fast-paced, cool images at the same time you're read dialog. It's nowhere near as bad in a slow-paced chamber drama where most of the scenes are medium to close-up shots of people talking or reacting to dialog.

For anime though, I can see how there would be a conflict a lot of the time as your eyes are constantly being drawn to the subtitles away from the on-screen action - which is a big part of the overall experience.

Cheers, Terry

[Kalbrecht]

Really though, subtitles aren't always a whole lot better in terms of English understanding. Just better to listen to.

Studio Ghibli, after getting picked up by Disney for international distribution, are one of the few with really good English dubbing due to great work and actors. Princess Mononoke was first translated into English, then 'cleaned up' by the awesome scifi author Neil Gaiman to make it sound more poetic.

[RHooks]

Gunsmith Cats.

:wink:

[chip5541]

Armatage III