Well like anything else, Anime is a term used to generalize sooo many types...
I for one like the "girly" types... Shoujo is the name of the style I like. this would include anime like: Revolutionary Girl Utena, X, Ah My Goddess, and Record of the Lodoss War.
I have found I LOATHE "Hentai" anime... This means "PERVERT" in Japanese... think Tentacle Beasties... Sex... Sex... Sex.. ODD perverted sex... and more sex.
I can take some or leave "Mecha".. think huge robots, get it... mechanical..all depends on what it's about... Some is good.. some is just SHOOT SHOOT BOOM BOOM... not my style.
So, you need some good anime... I think I have a VHS laying around which a friend made me a few years back. It has a few episodes from most of the old school anime types. You don't like one, you fast forward to the next. But you can get a fill for the type.
And yes... Pokemon was orignially a Japanese Anime... different than what we see though... a lot of the dubbing changes the meanings completely.
For a true shock, try to find an original editions of Sailor Moon... when she flys up and becomes Sailor moon, she's nude... completely. and you can see it... they took that out in teh American versions :)
I would really really recommend about anything by Miyazaki... A true GENIOUS... Some of his more recent: Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky, Kiki's Delivery Service, and my FAVORITE: "Naussica, Valley of the Wind"
Except for the subgenres and a couple familiar names, you might as well have been speaking to me in Japanese! lol
See, someone like you would know what the good stuff would be. I wont find it on television or discussed in an internet forum like Genmay. In those all one finds is Pokemon and Yu Gi Oh separate-the-kid's-money-from-them tripe to the tenticle rape snuff-sex hentai shit. Egads.
Some fun things in the Japanese version of Sailor Moon is that Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune are girlfriends. And there are some gender changing sailor scouts who wear leather outfits ... woo hoo. To say nothing of a gay crush an alien has on Sailor Moon's main squeeze Mamoru!
I also love Miyazaki, and of course everyone has to see Akira... visually stunning even if the (translated) story is a bit weak at the end.
Oh, and Magic User's Club has a fun love pentangle :-)
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Date: 2004-08-18 12:42 pm (UTC)I for one like the "girly" types... Shoujo is the name of the style I like. this would include anime like: Revolutionary Girl Utena, X, Ah My Goddess, and Record of the Lodoss War.
I have found I LOATHE "Hentai" anime... This means "PERVERT" in Japanese... think Tentacle Beasties... Sex... Sex... Sex.. ODD perverted sex... and more sex.
I can take some or leave "Mecha".. think huge robots, get it... mechanical..all depends on what it's about... Some is good.. some is just SHOOT SHOOT BOOM BOOM... not my style.
So, you need some good anime... I think I have a VHS laying around which a friend made me a few years back. It has a few episodes from most of the old school anime types. You don't like one, you fast forward to the next. But you can get a fill for the type.
And yes... Pokemon was orignially a Japanese Anime... different than what we see though... a lot of the dubbing changes the meanings completely.
For a true shock, try to find an original editions of Sailor Moon... when she flys up and becomes Sailor moon, she's nude... completely. and you can see it... they took that out in teh American versions :)
I would really really recommend about anything by Miyazaki... A true GENIOUS... Some of his more recent: Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Castle in the Sky, Kiki's Delivery Service, and my FAVORITE: "Naussica, Valley of the Wind"
Hope that helps convince you to try other types!!
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Date: 2004-08-18 01:43 pm (UTC)I guess some of the appeal stems from those really bad facial expressions and bad dubbing from Speed Racer.
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Date: 2004-08-18 03:04 pm (UTC)Except for the subgenres and a couple familiar names, you might as well have been speaking to me in Japanese! lol
See, someone like you would know what the good stuff would be. I wont find it on television or discussed in an internet forum like Genmay. In those all one finds is Pokemon and Yu Gi Oh separate-the-kid's-money-from-them tripe to the tenticle rape snuff-sex hentai shit. Egads.
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Date: 2004-08-18 07:27 pm (UTC)I also love Miyazaki, and of course everyone has to see Akira... visually stunning even if the (translated) story is a bit weak at the end.
Oh, and Magic User's Club has a fun love pentangle :-)
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Date: 2004-08-22 03:14 pm (UTC)If you want a TRUE shock value.
Watch Ranma 1/2, original editions.
I can laugh my ass off to it. only because I accept that it's completely just off the wall.