What's your favorite anime?

[Chichiri]

I'm a big Fushigi Yuugi fan, myself. (In case you couldn't tell, no da. ;) )

[sakabatou]

1. I don't have a fave... but I'm watching El Hazard: The Wanderers

[ironflange]

2. I was seriously hooked on Sailor Moon several years ago

Fortunately, I got over it before I got in trouble.

Others I've liked are Macross (and Macross Plus), Oh My Goddess, Marine Boy (now I'm dating myself), and anything by Miyazaki.

[ghostsofgiants]

3. Not a big anime fan, but I really enjoyed Sprited Away

I've been meaning to check out Perfect Blue as well. I've heard good things about that.

[bridgit]

4. Spirited Away is very cool...

:hi:

[Xipe Totec]

8. Good Choice

It's on my top list too. The story is, well, enchanting...

[sakabatou]

14. Perfect Blue will freak you out.

[ghostsofgiants]

26. Elaborate (without spoiling)

[sakabatou]

27. Well for one thing...

you sometimes don't know when something is real or imaginary. You don't know who the bad guy is, and everyone seems to be a headcase.

From ANN: Pop idol Mima quits her group in order to pursue an acting career. But not everyone is happy especially a crazed fan that stalks her. People around her are being murdered and Mima starts to lose her sanity.

From the official website: Mima was a pop idol, worshipped by the masses until fashion dictated otherwise. In order to salvage her career, she is advised to drop music and pursue acting. A soap opera role is offered but Mima’s character is less clean cut than desired. Regardless, she agrees and events take a turn for the worse.

She begins to feel reality slip, that her life is not her own. She discovers (imagines) her identical twin, a mirror image that hasn’t given up singing. Internet sites appear describing every intimate detail of her life and a figure stalks her from the shadows.

Her friends and associates are threatened (and killed) as Mima descends into a dangerous world of paranoid delusion. She fears for her life and must unravel fact from illusion in order to stay alive.

[ghostsofgiants]

42. Sounds interesting

Definitely have to check it out.

[khashka]

5. Captain Harlock and the queen of a thousand years

Give me pirates with great hair fighting tyranny and I'm anybody's.

Also like Vampire Hunter D.



Khash.

[Xipe Totec]

6. Princess Mononoke

I just love the story.

Plus, the voices of Billy bob Thornton and Gillian Anderson are just great.

Second fave is Spirited Away...

[unsavedtrash]

7. Vampire Hunter D

[democracyindanger]

9. FLCL

Great art, great music, but too damn short.

[sakabatou]

15. Yeah, well the manga only has two volumes...

[Chichiri]

19. FLCL = ?

[kevsand]

21. Also known as Furi Kuri or Fooly Cooly.

An amazing piece of work. The only anime I've ever seen that makes fun of its own manga. I couldn't tell you what's actually happening to save my life, but I can't help but watch it over and over.

[sakabatou]

28. And they never quite tell you what Furi Kuri means

but it's something to kneading dough...

[bridgit]

10. cat soup...

http://www.animedream.com/reviews/catsoup-rpguy.shtml there's so much that is less than mediocre but when anime shines it is brilliant!!

[WindRavenX]

11. Neon Genesis, Wolf's Rain

And FY =)

[sakabatou]

18. FY? FY... FY...

nope haven't heard of it, unless I have, and I've forgot.

[sakabatou]

35. Oh... Fushigi Yuugi...

[Archae]

12. Project A-Ko

Anytime two schoolgirls have a catfight that tears up the landscape and causes a starship to crash, is all right with me. :D

[sakabatou]

16. They miscolored C-Ko's hair!

It should be yellow!

[BreweryYardRat]

13. Hellsing.

No question about it. Vampires, a berserk Catholic priest, a chick with a 30mm multi-purpose cannon, and the occasional small army of walking corpses. What's not to love?

[nykiera]

17. Rurouni Kenshin

[sakabatou]

29. Me too

See name.

[4_Legs_Good]

20. I liked Giant Gorg

but I haven't watched the entire series in ages.

I really enjoyed Robotech when I was in High School. It still holds up fairly well and I give Carl Macek props for figuring out how to string 3 series together and try to make it look like one.

If Miyazaki counts as anime I'd say "Laputa" is my all time favorite, though.

david

[ContraBass Black]

22. Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex

I thought that the title was just a case of poor translation until the end of the first season. Will the second season air on Adult Swim?

[kevsand]

23. Cowboy Bebop

At the time, the first anime I had ever seen that incorporated western feature film values from start to finish. As a result, it's not your traditional manga-based anime, by which I mean that it has very little of the "exploding head" displays of emotion or people with giant swords or superpowers. Within the sf motif, it's very realistic, and borrows heavily from film noir. And boy is it ever dark...

[Pithlet]

32. Cowboy Bebop is great.

It's really in a category all its own. It's nothing like any other anime I've seen.

[hobo_baggins]

24. I like Serial Experiments Lain, Cowboy Bebop and Neon Genesis

Theres a few other good ones, but those ones rock my world....rock it!

[sakabatou]

30. And sometimes give you a severe headache a la End of Eva

[yellowdogintexas]

25. Master Mosquiton, Vampire Hunter D, Haunted Junction

Slayers,

Neon Genesis Evangelion until it got wierd at the end.

Haunted Junction and Slayers are hysterical, though.

but nothing...I mean nothing tops Myazaki.

But I think he is in a class by himself.

There are a bunch of them around the house since my daughter has been into this stuff since she was about 13; she just sold off a bunch of her Manga books and bought some new ones.

[PurityOfEssence]

31. Chobits or VanDread

...but I'm biased...

[Lydia Leftcoast]

33. Grave of the Fireflies

Sad story of two orphans during World War II. :cry:

[sakabatou]

34. Then you might like Barefoot Gen

[Arkana]

36. Inuyasha, baby.

Miroku, however, is my favorite character--probably because he's so much the anti-monk. :)

http://images.nonexiste.net.nyud.net:8090/inuyasha/inuyasha_scan19copy.jpg

[REP]

37. Guess Mine!

[Arkana]

44. Shippo?

:P

[sakabatou]

38. Trigun is another fav

"I am known as Valentinez Alkalinella Xifax Sicidaboheretz Gombigobilla Blue Stradivari Talentrent Pierre Andri Charton–Haymoss Ivanovici Baldeus George Doitzel Kaiser the Third – Don’t hesitate to call."

[tedoll78]

39. FullMetal Alchemist!!!

I laugh, I cry.. I still don't know how the story ends..
I can't wait to order the DVDs.. :P

[Art_from_Ark]

40. Doraemon

[MrScorpio]

41. Venus Wars and Akira

The classics

[MN ChimpH8R]

43. Lupin III

Mock away. I know it's old and a little primitive in the animation department, but the core five characterss (Lupin, Fujiko :loveya:, Goemon, Jigen and Zenigata are all such spot-on archetypes).

[AlCzervik]

45. i like whoever made "Spirited away" and "Howls moving castle"

[sakabatou]

46. Miyazaki-san did.