Recommend me good anime?

[Saluki]

The Samurai X movies.

[Houston]

Just watched a movie from '09 called "Summer Wars"

:jhenbeatkwon:



[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbmdYasVDDg&feature]Summer Wars - Trailer [HD] - YouTube[/ame]



Animes are naturally out there so it's rare that one can have a real epic(Akira and Princess Mononoke for example) feel to it, but this one does it pretty good. To contrast that, almost the entire movie takes place inside of one house, similar to "Tokyo Story", if you've seen it before. Weird blend of themes that somehow works.


With this and "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time", this director is making a name for himself.

[DomePatrol]

Can not go wrong with cowboy bebop

[Nucking Futs]

I just started watching Death Note last night.

[j.hen]

Afro Samurai is fucking AWESOME

[DomePatrol]

I just started watching Death Note last night.

Death note is actually pretty good. I started watching it but havent finished the last few episodes.

[Houston]

The finale for Death Note is probably my favorite of any anime.

[j.hen]

Got netflix now and am about to start a serious anime kick.

Finished: Afro Samurai, Afro Samurai Resurrection, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Samurai Champloo
Started: FLCL, Fullmetal Alchmeist
On the list: Trigun, Death Note
Maybe?: Bleach

Samurai Champloo is easily my favorite. Can anyone recommend a couple more similar to it?

[stevsta]

DBZ

forget dbz

watch Dragonball shit is great

[Houston]

Got netflix now and am about to start a serious anime kick.

Finished: Afro Samurai, Afro Samurai Resurrection, Avatar: The Last Airbender
Started: Samurai Champloo, FLCL
On the list: Trigun, Fullmetal Alchemist, Death Note
Maybe?: Bleach

Samurai Champloo is easily my favorite. Can anyone recommend a couple more similar to it?

Join the club

I should finish Bebop by tonight. After that I'm starting Samurai Champloo and then Gundam Wing unless I find something else.

I'll see if I can think of or find anything similar to Champloo while I'm watching it.

[Houston]

haha nice nice.

Jhen I don't know how good your memory is but episodes 3 and 4 were "Hellhounds for hire". It was about that samurai clan who peacefully ruled over a town until the Yakuza came and started to set up territory. The one with the dice game and the little kid whos father kill himself to save him etc....
If you'll remember both Mugen and Jin were pretty much hired as bodyguard. Jin by the Yakuza and Mugen sorta by the boy.

I just realized that most of that story came from the old movie "Yojimbo"(bodyguard).

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzFq5hOlZ5s"]YOJIMBO - Trailer - HQ - YouTube[/ame]

Some of the dialogue even. In Champloo when the kid is first getting beat up by those guys in that restaurant Mugen turns to him and says "You wanna hire me as a body guard? Watch what I can do". The same thing the main character on Yojimbo said.


I wonder how many other episodes are based on old movies/stories. This is one of the few I'd be able to notice though.

[j.hen]

I've seen every episode multiple times, I remember those 2. Thinking back on the series I'd bet it wasn't the last time they make references like that.

Just wait till you get to the baseball episode. That's Mugen break dance pitching in my sig.

[Houston]

Finished Champloo last night, 'twas very good. Most of the series was filler episodes but they still were very easy to get through. I thought they might eventually get boring, but they never did.



My only problem....

 

The main girl, boy was she annoying. I managed to feel nothing for her the entire series. When Jin and Mugen were getting beat at the end it was kinda sad, but I couldn't have cared less about the girl. Even when the guy just walked in and killed her dad infront of her, lol.
The should've been traveling with a more badass girl, like that blind one for instance.

I got like 3 or 4 series I'm gonna chose from next, not sure which one I'm going with yet.

[JBregz]

Dragon Ball Z is where it's at. There's a site that has like all 500 episodes. I'm on episode 28 of the Z series lol

[Houston]

New Rurouni Kenshin material in the works.




From the looks of it they're gonna animate the final arc of the manga, thus giving the show a proper ending. This is most glorious news.