Sijun Forums :: View topic

gigatron · Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2002 1:30 pm

You know whats really sad i only saw half of akira... I WANA GET IT :X But i dont got no anime stores anywhere, video stores sell movie shiet and err no where to download poopy qual ones on the internet :P

balistic · Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2002 2:31 pm

quote:
Originally posted by aColdOldKodiak:
Wings of Honneamise is the only anime movie that I found enjoyable in the sense that it was really a MOVIE. And Metropolis... oh my it is retarted... I know most of you are gonna go "WAH?", but the movie is so disfunctional you have to sit back and go, "No...". I mean, why make a robot killing force, when you can just stop making the damn robots in the first place?... nonsense.

Actually, reading your post made me sit back and go "WAH?," and then I was all "No . . . "

The Zigguraut is a weapon designed to disable the technology of rival nations, thereby allowing a takeover of the world by the country of Metropolis.

They only briefly /tested/ it on themselves.

If the story was that fundamentally broken, it wouldn't have survived nearly a hundred years worth of re-makes.

*edit* and also:

OMG!!1!!i was watching ghoast n the shell and it wuz c00l how she got nekid and evrything but then like the hole movie stopped and it was just this weird music 4 10 minuts and i was all like WTFBBQ???!!1!

[ August 08, 2002: Message edited by: balistic ]

balistic · Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2002 3:01 pm

Since this thread morphed into a general anime showcase:

Gally, from GUNNM

NextGen · member Member # Joined: 24 Apr 2001 Posts: 149

Ghost in the shell was awesome. The whole Hyper Velocity Bullets, Puppet Master, Hacked Minds, Machanical Implants, Assassinations, Invisible Cloaks, Cool ass Robo-tanks, Awesome art, slick animation. And better yet, The TV series is coming out soon WOOOOHOOOO!!!

quote:
Quote by ValarianROOT
Evangelion the movie is another no one has mentioned.

I did in like the 6th post. Evangelion is kinda wierd though, Gainex puts out wierd stuff FLCL comes to mind.
Blood: i was thinking of listing but even though the animation and everything was great, it was pretty short and the vampires(whatever they really were, "demons"?) didn't put up too much of a fight.

gigatron · Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2002 6:52 pm

GITS2 is being made if im not mistaken and yes GITS ending was ubber lame but ya... sucked ass in other words lol it was like COOL WHAT NEXT COOL WHAT NEXT ... END? WTF!?

landmaster · member Member # Joined: 04 Mar 2002 Posts: 76 Location: ?

balisitc... damn, I forgot how much you kick ass!

ken · Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2002 11:09 pm

ooh, yeah, wings of honneamise is my favourite anime. units... me live in australia too. yipee. i love eva and ninja scroll as well. mononoke was good, but i like miyazaki's other films more.

the problem with akira is that's it's old, and brilliant for it's time. but because a lot of ppl missed it, they compare it to anime now. the other problem is that it's a 1000+ page graphic novel, compressed into one film. obviously the plot suffered.

-Ken

oDD · Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2002 11:25 pm

yes totoro is pure magic

ValarianROOT Pleaz compress youre files their are too big ! the last one got 400 kb !!!!!!!!!

For me Metropolis sucked very much, it was so boring.

Lodoss is cool, but berserk (not so good animation and graphics as lodoss) its better.

And i don't like trigun and evangelion either.

Post some funky anime pics :P

keredleung · member Member # Joined: 25 Jul 2002 Posts: 70 Location: HK

I am a junior member, nice yo meet u guys. i just share my artwork third times.

thanks NextGen. i know more about pixelart, and i do not call this work as pixelart now.
"pixeldraw" is better.

i have seen Cowboy bebop too, its great.
The others i will go to buy later, hope can see them all!

Pls suggest which anime must see, because i dont got lots of money. thx.

Leo · Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 4:55 am

Not a fan but somehow LOVE that anime. Bike scenes are very dynamic and violent. And yeah, everything is drawn by hand.

keredleung, I suggest you to use highlights on bike's panels, to show the form better, now it looks quite flat.

-leo

ValarianROOT · Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 5:21 pm

NextGen: sorry reread the post a day or so ago and your right.

Resized my images too sorry bout that.

JN

HaRdC0rePixxX · Posted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 5:38 pm

KOJI MORIMOTO
_everything is said, sleep now.

Rohan · Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 3:15 am

Prince, NICE BUTT. :>

J Bradford · Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 4:21 am

I'm not a big fan of Anime, can we say overdone? Ninja Scroll was the only thing I enjoyed.

aColdOldKodiak · Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 5:43 pm

quote:
The Zigguraut is a weapon designed to disable the technology of rival nations, thereby allowing a takeover of the world by the country of Metropolis.

They only briefly /tested/ it on themselves.

If the story was that fundamentally broken, it wouldn't have survived nearly a hundred years worth of re-makes.

Sure... the ok part of the story. The bad part was the revolution (wtf was it about?) the police force of robot killing retards. Yet that didn't really bother me all that much, what bothered me was Tima. Why the hell would you build a computer to rule the world in a body shell with moving arms/ legs and the ability to build emotions? Sounds like a bad idea to me. I dunno, the art, some of the ideas, and the zigg were cool, but this version (if there are other version as you said) of the story I didn't really like.

Also I'm not sure about remakes, I thought it was based on some old sci-fi book/movie(?) by somebody, but I didn't know it was remade so many times. And I'm not saying it's fundamentally flawed, but the anime ver. isn't too good.

[ August 11, 2002: Message edited by: aColdOldKodiak ]

Lunatique · Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2002 7:28 pm

Wing os Honneamise is one of my favs. It's one of the few "arthouse" anime ever made.

No one mentioned Dagger of Kamui?! That was a classic! A true masterpiece. I think most people that did see it only saw the butchered American edition.

How about Arion? Yasuhiko's best anime film ever! This one has never been released commercially in the west. Maybe there's a fan-sub version around?

keredleung · member Member # Joined: 25 Jul 2002 Posts: 70 Location: HK

Only ValarianROOT has Akira artwork?
Any more?

iByrn · Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2002 7:03 am

Wings of Honneamise seemed REALLY long. But it was good in parts. I found the music to be rather weird, not sure in a good way or a bad way.

Anyone seen Martian Successor Nadesico? It was decent. Too bad it had the whole "20 hot girls going after one boring guy" thing.

End of Evangelion was the best anime film I've ever seen. Waiting for it to come out in English (September!!).

Serial Experiments Lain kicked ass. What a weird, moody series that was.

Sorry, I don't do a lot of anime fanart so I don't have anything to post.

edit: Oh yeah, keredleung, there's something about your picture that I really like, but I can't put my finger on it. It's unique. Good work.

[ August 16, 2002: Message edited by: iByrn ]

iandredd · member Member # Joined: 04 Jul 2002 Posts: 178

I love akira and GITS. I saw battle angel alita ages ago and from what i remember it was cool. Being in the UK most anime I have seen was on channel 4 about 7 years ago at like 1 am. I vaguely remember something called devil man and cyber city oedo 808. I remember them being good but i may be incorrect for the reason mentioned above. I bought appleseed a few weeks ago cause i though "oh yeah that had big robot type things in it, cool!" but its pretty lame. It has an interesting commentary though. What about patalabor 1 and 2? i heard they are good.

keredleung · member Member # Joined: 25 Jul 2002 Posts: 70 Location: HK

Thanks all guys reply although they are not talk about Aikra.
I know more anime beside Aikra after seeing your replies. And I am going to buy them one by one.

Can anyone list top5 anime.
(which 5 anime u think is a must see!)
So that i can watch them one by one. THanks

[ August 16, 2002: Message edited by: keredleung ]

[ August 16, 2002: Message edited by: keredleung ]

balistic · Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2002 11:33 pm

My favorites:

Ghost in the Shell
Battle Angel (GUNNM)
Princess Mononoke
Kiki's Delivery Service

The new Vampire Hunter D ain't bad, but its not really a classic either.

Jin-Roh is quite good too, but the story is fairly depressing.

Most anime is utter crap . . . I can't believe how much of it is getting translated and sold for $30 a DVD . . . there are maybe 20 or 30 movies worth watching, and the rest of it exists so that fanboys can feel special about being into something "weird" (read: crappy).

Someone mentioned a new project by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko . . . does anybody have more info on it?

keredleung · member Member # Joined: 25 Jul 2002 Posts: 70 Location: HK

Why no one talk about "Laputa: Castle in the Sky".

its one of my top5 anime.

thanks above reply. At your list, i have seen Kiki's Delivery Service only.

[ August 16, 2002: Message edited by: keredleung ]

[ August 16, 2002: Message edited by: keredleung ]

TracerB · Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2002 8:27 pm

Kodiak,

The reason that Tima was built to look and act the way she does is because Duke Red's daughter had died and he wanted Tima (which was most likely his daughter's name) to be just like her.

balistic,

Most anime is utter crap? come on now! What have you been watching?

IMO most anime is great. Of course theres quite a few bad shows just like with anything else, but out of everything i've seen, i've only seen maybe 1 show/movie that disappointed me. My tastes arent too discriminating though, so i like most everything i see

heres a few great shows/movies for ya keredleung:

GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka)
Irresponsible Captain Tylor TV
Trigun
Cowboy Bebop
Perfect Blue
Rurouni Kenshin (OVA and series)
I My Me! Strawberry Eggs
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Metropolis
Princess Mononoke

keredleung · member Member # Joined: 25 Jul 2002 Posts: 70 Location: HK

thanks TracerB.

i found EVA is another cool anime.

Eric Drobile · Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2002 7:31 pm

Made this Akira animation a while ago in flash for absolutely no reason. It's not too hard to guess what they're saying. :P

Akira Animation

[ August 21, 2002: Message edited by: Eric Drobile ]

Superbug · Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2002 3:43 pm

Macross!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ROBOTECH SAGA!!! COME ON!!

ok, so it's not a movie, but they do have movies...all though they lack compared to the series. Zentradi, Robotech Masters, and the Invid!@!!
WAAIEIEIEII!

Digital Jackass · Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2002 7:07 pm

I watched evangelion over and over, and once i thought i nderstood the damn show, i saw the movie and that just f'd me right up.

Then i saw FLCL and said to myself, "Gainax is seriously doing some hardcore drugs"

BooMSticK · Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 2:18 am

akira is my favourite, no doubt. Ghost in the shell has some very nice passages but overall never surpasses Akira.

but then again, the (Akira) movie is sooo shallow compared to the books. Everytime I open one of the books i'm in awe... Best comicbook ever!

oh... and if u see the 'behind the scenes' stuff you'll see that CGI was indeed used in Akira.

,boom

Juan-Philipo · Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2002 6:02 am

I couldn't get myself to read ALL that, so I just have one thing to say:

Ghost in the Shell kicks bootie big time
Rurouni Kenshin (especially the OVA's) are the best manga ever