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Post by rikaaoi on Jan 28, 2007 5:53:09 GMT
Ok. Who likes anime and/or manga? does anyone like Fruits Basket, Pretear, Chibi Vampire, XXX Holic, Legal Drug, Immortal Rain, Death Note, and Wolf's Rain?
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Post by twistedcheeto on Jan 28, 2007 5:56:22 GMT
Ok. Who likes anime and/or manga? does anyone like Fruits Basket, Pretear, Chibi Vampire, XXX Holic, Legal Drug, Immortal Rain, Death Note, and Wolf's Rain? OH YES YES YES!!!! I love Fruits Basket and Death Note to pieces!!! Wolf's Rain tis awesome as well (I watched the anime, but I didn't read all the manga yet :/) and I love CLAMP (Legal Drug, Chobits, Tsubasa and Cardcaptor Sakura), Othello, and DN ANGEL!!!! <---is obsessed with DN Angel! =D |
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Post by rikaaoi on Jan 28, 2007 6:02:07 GMT
I haven't read Chobits yet. I'm waiting for my friend to bring it to school so I can borrow it. the 4th Legal Drug comes out tomorrow I think or next week. who's you're fave character in Fruits Basket? And have read the Fruits Basket manga yet?
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Post by numbuheightbitstar on Jan 28, 2007 6:13:58 GMT
My sister just bought some Fruits Basket lip balm. She says its really good.
That was completely irrelevent. Thank you for reading.
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Post by rikaaoi on Jan 28, 2007 6:21:16 GMT
You're welcome. Who likes Momiji and who knows Deru Deru Momiji in english and Japanese?
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Post by thesuki on Jan 28, 2007 6:54:27 GMT
I was fortunate enough to have a friend who found links to fantranslated volumes of Fruits Basket up to Volume 22. There are 23, and that one will be up eventually, but Tokyopop asked them to take the scans down. Boo... But at least I got to read up to 22.
Meanwhile, the only anime I'm watching lately is Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge, or Perfect Girl Evolution. Or Wallflower, for the English manga translation. Actually, the subs are really slow to come out, so I watch the raw versions when I can. But they only have those up through 16.
Ouran High School Host Club is highly recommended, and one of the few times the anime is better than the manga.
For preferences, I seem to enjoy OELs better than translations, and subs WAY better than dubs.
Meanwhile, Cowboy Bebop pwns the Earth.
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Post by iguana on Jan 28, 2007 7:17:12 GMT
If you haven't heard of Mind Game before, look it up and WATCH IT, NOW. It's got everything a good movie of its genre needs: an original art style (it constantly switches art styles from a regular anime one, to a live action one with real life character portraits animated in stop-motion and a US cartoon style reminiscent of John Kricfalusi's work), great humour and a surprisingly optimistic plot about the true meaning of life, or lack thereof.
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Post by thesuki on Jan 28, 2007 7:27:11 GMT
Shoujo is always aimed at young females. Doesn't stop boys from reading/watching it (nor should it).
And most anime is NOT aimed at children. Not until 4Kids gets ahold of it, anyway. And that's only the anime that gets imported. Cowboy Bebop is most certainly not for kids. Ditto with Samurai Champloo. Ditto again for Marmalade Boy, Wallflower, Ouran High School Host Club, and the ACTUAL Sailor Moon. Not the chopped up English edited version they puked out for the masses.
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Post by iguana on Jan 28, 2007 8:39:05 GMT
Shoujo is always aimed at young females. Doesn't stop boys from reading/watching it (nor should it). And most anime is NOT aimed at children. Not until 4Kids gets ahold of it, anyway. And that's only the anime that gets imported. Cowboy Bebop is most certainly not for kids. Ditto with Samurai Champloo. Ditto again for Marmalade Boy, Wallflower, Ouran High School Host Club, and the ACTUAL Sailor Moon. Not the chopped up English edited version they puked out for the masses. Never heard of Ouran high school, Wallflower or Marmalade boy. But yeah, CB does have some more graphic violence, and Samurai Champloo got an 18+ rating in Japan and is full of sexual humour and people getting chopped up. But those are just as rare in Japan as they are here. I found a website once started by someone who moved to Japan, and most people there found an adult American person watching anime really weird. And no, Sailor Moon isn't 'adult' either. There's nothing an educated 10 year old couldn't handle from what I've seen. Plus, Japan takes all this stuff a lot less seriously than we do. It is, after all, just a cartoon. Also, fun fact: Mind Game had a graphic near-rape scene, tons of gore, people getting shot in the first scenes and an undetailed sex scene. It got a "general audiences" rating in Japan (or whatever their equivalent is) just because it was unrealistic and the film's overall message was beautifully done and very positive. I'm guessing this whole 'anime is for adults' nonsense is just Adult Swim trying to market Inuyasha as an adult only show and people not wanting to admit that their fandom is mainly aimed at children. Kind of like Star Wars. |
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Post by destinyinevitable on Jan 28, 2007 9:44:40 GMT
I collect Absolute Boyfriend, Cardcaptors, Case Closed, Ceres: Celestial Legend, Death Note, Full Metal Alchemist, Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play, Fushigi Yugi: Genbu Kaiden, InuYasha, Rurouni Kenshin, Tenjho Tenge, Sailor Moon Stars, and Yu-Gi-Oh! mangas. I have a collection of about 100. I LOVE anime.
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Post by SAVE_US.WBTC on Jan 28, 2007 9:52:34 GMT
Give me a good red-blooded shounen any day of the week. Favorites include Rurouni Kenshin, Trigun, Samurai Champloo, Naruto, One Piece, Voltron, and Lupin the 3rd.
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Post by numbuheightbitstar on Jan 28, 2007 10:08:48 GMT
Shoujo is always aimed at young females. Doesn't stop boys from reading/watching it (nor should it). And most anime is NOT aimed at children. Not until 4Kids gets ahold of it, anyway. I'm sorry, but I can't help but raise an eyebrow at that assertion. First, the 4Kids crack: Reality check, most of the shows 4Kids gets a license for were aimed at kids ANYWAY. That 4Kids needlessly dumbed some of their shows down does not make this any less true. Sure, an adult can watch Yu-Gi-Oh or the F-Zero anime and get enjoyment out of it, but to say these things weren't aimed at kids is like saying Meow Mix isn't supposed to be fed to cats. Now, granted, Japan is far more open-minded about animation than America is, however the truth is that they, like us, have a belief that cartoons (including anime) are primarily for kids, with a few odd exceptions here and there. Being an adult who watches anime gets you the label "otaku"--which is not good, as it means "someone who has an unhealthy obsession." Manga is a different issue, as there are indeed manga for every age group and all of them are given equal billing. Manga is to Japan what the printed novel is to America. Now again, there are anime for adults, but they're rather rare, and certainly none of the shows you named qualify (well, maybe Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, but I'd have to read up more on those productions to get the full story). In fact, I'm willing to bet that most of the truly "meant for adult" anime was either left in Japan, or got translated but is languishing in obscurity on some smalltime publisher's shelf. |
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Post by numbuheightbitstar on Jan 28, 2007 11:46:28 GMT
But seriously, I'd rather watch 'kiddy' stuff and be considered weird rather than all the bad action movies and unfunny comedy with laugh tracks Hollywood craps out just because live action is more "adult". I didn't say watching kids shows was bad. I was just correcting The Suki's assertion that "most anime is not for kids... until 4Kids gets ahold of it, anyway." I just don't like that American fans of anime seem to have this bizarre notion that near every show was actually aimed at adults in Japan then marketted for kids in the US. That's just not true. If anything, we have the exact opposite problem--shows clearly marketted towards kids playing on Adult Swim (Inu-Yasha and Detective Conan come to mind). |
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Post by iguana on Jan 28, 2007 13:09:28 GMT
I didn't say watching kids shows was bad. I was just correcting The Suki's assertion that "most anime is not for kids... until 4Kids gets ahold of it, anyway." I know, I was just pointing it out. I just don't like that American fans of anime seem to have this bizarre notion that near every show was actually aimed at adults in Japan then marketted for kids in the US. That's just not true. If anything, we have the exact opposite problem--shows clearly marketted towards kids playing on Adult Swim (Inu-Yasha and Detective Conan come to mind). Airing children-oriented anime on an "adult only" network is actually a pretty clever way of getting children to watch them.  But yeah, I blame Adult Swim for that notion, and people like that Kahn guy from 4kids claiming that anime is an "adult concept". No, it's just the Japanese word for "cartoon", you idiot. Hell, make that the whole American/european media; G4TV also has some "18+ anime area that's basically badly drawn anime characters in swimsuits. They're airing stuff like Slayers and Yu Yu Hakusho here in Romania with a 12+/16+ rating too. I'll just never understand why this stuff is always considered "adult"; at first I thought it was the US standards of what a kids' show is supposed to be like, but now we have Justice League with its villains going on about how "money and women" are all there is to life, tons of implied sex in Batman (even the old early 90's one), blood and Billy's face getting ripped off in graphic ways all the time in Billy and Mandy... Bleach also started airing on the US Adult Swim right now, even though all the episodes have a PG rating; same as Naruto, which is always on CN with some VERY slight editing, removing few blood and leaving in all the sexual jokes. (well, the US one; the European one is still going to be given the One Piece treatment from what I've heard). |
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Post by Mariostar on Jan 28, 2007 16:46:00 GMT
Not into Anime myself.
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But yeah, I blame Adult Swim for that notion, and people like that Kahn guy from 4kids claiming that anime is an "adult concept". No, it's just the Japanese word for "cartoon", you idiot. 
