New to Anime

[plop]

New to the whole anime thing.

What should I watch?

[Thalia]

I would recommend one of the 26 episode ones:

Cowboy Bebop's quite a good one, great soundtrack, interesting characters, poor bounty hunters trying to make cash kind of theme.

Trigun is ace, though it's kinda old now. Really funny, story of vash the stampede, the humanoid typhoon who seems to wreak havoc wherever he goes

Berserk is pretty cool and has a good plot going on if you don't mind hacking and slashing and blood. Story about Guts, badass guy with a huge sword, and his loyalty to a mercenary group called the band of the hawk and to their leader, griffith.

Full Metal Alchemist is worth watching too, though it's 52 eps. Two brothers try to bring their mother to life and end up with one trapped in a suit of armour and the other losing an arm and leg. They're now trying to get these things back by finding the philosopher's stone. Some funny bits and some depressing parts, particularly the episode with the chimera

There are others that most anime fans have watched such as Eva (the most depressing mecha anime in the world...ever), naruto (great ninja anime provided you skip the 100s of filler episodes) and Bleach (main character works as a death god, gets uber powerful and fights bad guys with a little help from his friends).







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You've been nothing but an angel every day of your life and now you wonder what it's like to be damned...

[Scurve Kano]

Yeah, that'd do.


Mind, I'm curious- what do you mean "new to anime"- what's your experience of it been so far? Do tell, I'm nosey!

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"Oh, and your poet Eliot had it all wrong:
THIS is the way the world ends."
-First Cortana Letter

[Thalia]

I kinda assumed lame dubs on TV was as much as they'd watched - it's how i started watching it. Either that or the odd popular movie like Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away.

Note to new person: Never watch with dubs. They are inevitably crap. It still upsets me to think how much Card Captor Sakura was ruined by Americans getting their hands on it Though, tbf, i think dubs are a bit better than they used to be, or at least involve less butchering of the actual content.

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You've been nothing but an angel every day of your life and now you wonder what it's like to be damned...

[Scurve Kano]

Quoting Thalia from 22:09, 10th Nov 2007
Note to new person: Never watch with dubs. They are inevitably crap. It still upsets me to think how much Card Captor Sakura was ruined by Americans getting their hands on it Though, tbf, i think dubs are a bit better than they used to be, or at least involve less butchering of the actual content.

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You've been nothing but an angel every day of your life and now you wonder what it's like to be damned...

Fist of the North Star *sigh* had an awesome dub, if only because it changed the 70s soundtrack to an awesome pseudotechno thingie.

And the awesome episode titles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Fi ... r_episodes

"Can the Flames of Love Burn in Hell? - You Are Already Dead!!"
"Search Order from Satan. - Find the Man with the Seven Scars."
"Villains! Ready your one way tickets to Death!"
"Rei! I'll wipe away your tears with my fist!"

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"Oh, and your poet Eliot had it all wrong:
THIS is the way the world ends."
-First Cortana Letter

[Thalia]

Heh, those are pretty awesome titles, my favourite is:
"In a City Without Light, a Lone Fist Burns! - Furious Death of the Five Exploding Fingers!"

Sadly not enough to make me wanna watch the series though

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You've been nothing but an angel every day of your life and now you wonder what it's like to be damned...

[Scurve Kano]

No, sadly the best thing about it is the episode names...

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"Oh, and your poet Eliot had it all wrong:
THIS is the way the world ends."
-First Cortana Letter

[D-ko]

Sometimes Y'all worry me a little.
I did quite like
"Renounce Love! - For it is the Burden of the Ominous Star that Summons Death....!!"
though, and surely you mean that the bast part of Fist of the North Star was the Excell Parody?

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Lookin at my watch, time 3 A.M.
Got to see that everywhere I turn will
Point to the fact that time is Eternal
KLF

[Scurve Kano]

Quoting D-ko from 06:43, 15th Nov 2007
though, and surely you mean that the bast part of Fist of the North Star was the Excell Parody?

Does that count? Yes, it does. Have a cookie.

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"Oh, and your poet Eliot had it all wrong:
THIS is the way the world ends."
-First Cortana Letter