Question Anime referals

Can anyone reccomend any great anime series based on this list of anime I've watched?

I, Crazy Minh, have seen:

- Gundam (00, 08th MS Team, Iron-blooded Orphans, Build Fighters/Try/Build Divers, 1st season of SEED, Episodes 1-4 of Unicorn)

- Aldnoah Zero

- Psycho Pass (Season 1 in its entirety, and half of the terrible 2nd season)

- Fairy Tale (First four seasons, then I lost track)

- Ghost In the Shell (Original, Stand-alone Complex 1-2)

- Macross (All of Frontier, first episode of Delta)

- Tenchi Muyo (tried it, watched Ryo Oki until I reached the abduction bit, confused when I watched the next one because there was suddenly a baby)

- Code Geass (R1 and R2. Haven't seen Akikoo the Exiled yet, or any of the OVA's)

- Infinite Stratos (Season 1 and Season 2)

- League of Galactic Heroes (Up to episode 10 of the first season)

- Astro Boy (who the f**k hasn't seen Astro Boy??)

- Log Horizon (All of the first season)

- Sword Art Online (the crap original series, the mediocre SAO Alternative Gungale Online, AND the better Abridged version of the original by Something Witty Entertainment (It's good enough that it counts. Deal with it.))

- RWBY (Volumes 1-5. Holy shit, Volume 6 coming October 28th this year!!)

- Cells at Work (Most of it)

- Avatar the Last Airbender (Seen most of it, haven't really caught all the episodes in order. Last I watched it was when it was on ABC 3 back in the early 2000's. Tuned in for the hell of it, and got stuck into it. Only caught it from halfway through the first season, to a quarter of the way through the third).

- Cowboy Bebop (All of it)

- Break Blade 1

- Knights of Sidonia (Both Seasons)

- Hellsing Ultimate (pretty much all of it)

Any suggestions? There's a few others I've watched, but haven't recalled enough of due to the tests of time. I think I watched a bit of the original Gundam, and a bit of Dragonball Z, but I'm not sure...

That’s a ... quite eclectic list there actually. I think you’ll be fine with anything on the normal “best anime” lists around, I’m not seeing any preferences there.

Do you have Netflix? They have paid for a couple of good Animes, ID0, Kuromukuro, Violet Evergreen, etc. that should be available worldwide.

If you are really into Anime and in the US get yourself a Crunchyroll subscription and go to town, if you are elsewhere check to see what a Netflix has, at least in Singapore it’s suprisingly decent.

Animes I’ve watched recently and liked a lot (apologies for any spelling errors)
Little Witch Academia
Blame
Restaurant to another world
The Ancient Magus Bride
Alice and Zoruko
Twin Star Excorcists
Is it wrong to pick up girls from a dungeon
Is it wrong to pick up girls from a dungeon: Sword Oratioria
Shokugeki No Soma (Food Wars)
Ushio and Tora
Rurouni Kenshin
Bleach (just stop after the first 3 seasons)
Your lie in April
Children of the Whales
Miss Koybiashis’ dragon Maid

Not series, but almost everything by Studio Ghibli.

"Spirited Away" is worth re-watching several times.

- The first time to enjoy the story as it is told;
- The second to analyse it from the pov of comparison with the mythic story structures;
- The third from the pov of the world-building;
- The fourth from the pov of understanding how the background characters fit in with the modern interpretations of the myths, and their representation within the world that they built
- The fifth to listen to the soundtrack and how it carries/flavours the story as displayed;
- The sixth/subsequent to follow the background characters, and to extrapolate their external stories when they are not just being part of someone else's tale;
- And lastly just to watch the story and enjoy it for what it is.

(I really like the interpretation of it being the story of someone undergoing an initiation into a shamanic tradition, but there's more than just that in there. )

This approach can be applied to almost all stories that have a rich background world.

The last re-watching is directly relevant, as it is good practise to watch a familiar tale with a naive set of eyes, so as to counteract the tendency to over-intellectualise things.

While I haven't gotten into too much Anime, I noticed Dragonball Z was not on your list. I really enjoyed watching it on TV while in college late 90's. I'm sure the Japanese version is better but the US version held my attention.

Yes, it's mainstream but i really enjoyed it.

Violet Evergarden
Blame! (the original manga done by the same guy who wrote knights of sidonia, if you like the movie then read the comic its a million times better)
Berserk (1997) (the legendary comic's Golden Age Arc adapted) (dont watch the 2016-2017 ver. seriously.) (just read the manga)
Redline

part 2 because of the spam filter

Angel Beats
FLCL: Fooly Cooly
Black Lagoon
Ancient Magus Bride
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid

A Silent Voice. I love the manga more, but the movie is phenomenal.

CrazyMinh wrote: - Astro Boy (who the f**k hasn't seen Astro Boy??)

That would be me. Then again, you've said you like Shadowrun and haven't seen Black Lagoon?

I'd second FLCL, but with the caveat that the original is more in tune with Gen-X than Millenial sensibilities.
One of the other anime I've enjoyed is XXXholic, which ties in to Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles without being completely tied down to it.

Neon Genesis Evangelion
Bubblegum Crisis (the original)
Blood +
.Hack//Sign
CLANNAD/CLANNAD: After Story
Wolf's Rain
Witch Hunter Robin
The Slayers (all movies and seasons)
Vision of Escaflowne

Find the Movies:

Wolf Children
Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Grave of the Fireflies

part 3 because I remembered some old ones

Great Teacher Onizuka
Big O
Yu Yu Hakusho
Spice and Wolf

Sounds like you enjoy plenty of action by the sound of things. Let me seee...

Trigun: A classic, I believe made by the same people who made Hellsing. One of my first anime, and one of the first time I shed tears over a character. Sci-fi Western with plenty of humor and action. Don't miss out.

Gurren Lagann: Another classic. There's a reason you see references all around, and you will believe. plenty of big mecha to go around.

Kill La Kill: (In translation, carries a pun. The way it's written, it means 'Dressed to Kill') A parody of Magical girls and high school setting, and the first episode is both ridiculous, and throws things to the extremes. Careful though, there is fanservice involved... Yet has a surprising amount of meaning behind it.

Re: Zero: I... Hesitate to say too much on this one, since saying too much woudl spoil the big twist of the first two 'episodes', but it takes the 'Our world guy gets transported into a fantasy world', but puts a lot of twists into it. Lots of action, but not for the faint of heart.



My Hero Academia: So close to Whateley, it's not funny, though this one could even be set a few decades after this setting. A superhero academy. It does a lot of things that might seem cliche to some people at first, but does them so well, it's a sight to see, and once it progresses, it becomes a thing of it's own. Great characters all around.

Full Metal Alchemist: I haven't seen it whole myself, but they made two animes on it, both seemingly quite different from the other, while one is closer to the actual manga.

Overlord: Another one where a modern person gets transported into a fantasy world, but again, with a twist. He's brought into the fantasy world as his character, a Great Litch, and the tomb his guild had built, along with all the NPCs they had crafted, suddenly coming to life, dedicating themselves to him. Though he has great power, yes, most of the time is pent discovering this new world... It's a bit detached though, since the story will often take detours and scenarios around other characters, but it's still been an interesting experience. Give it a try.

I cannot believe that no one's mentioned Ranma 1/2

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I've watched quite a number of anime films and a significant portions of several series over the years, and bits and pieces of several more. However, most of them are older ones, from the late 1980s and early to mid 1990s. Much of this is from when I was going to showings with the UC Berkeley anime club (which fortunately was open to anyone, not just students). They would do a new film or part of a new series each week for the first half of the showing, then do an episode or two of a series that was being shown throughout the semester (the ones during the years I went were Marmalade Boy, Fushigi Yuugi, Irresponsible Captain Tylor, Please Save My Earth, and Martian Successor Nadesico).

A few that come to mind:

Films
Grave of the Fireflies - my favorite, though it is sooooo painful to watch. Poor, poor Setsuko /me cries a little just thinking about it.
My Neighbor Totoro (which rather infamously was originally presented in Japan as a double feature alongside Grave of the Fireflies - Holy Mood Whiplash, Batman!)
Angel's Egg
The End of Evangelion - which honestly makes even a visual tone poem such as the same director's earlier work, Angel's Egg, seem approachable in comparison. WTF happened in that movie?
Akira
Project A-Ko - now with freshly bleached underpants to hide that it was originally meant to be part of the Cream Lemon hentai series. No, I'm not joking.
Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer
Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko
Ghost In the Shell (the major 1998 release, specifically)
Howl's Moving Castle
Whispers of the Heart
Perfect Blue
Only Yesterday
Who is There Behind Me? - Do I have that title right? I recall the movie, sort of, but I dunno...
Barefoot Gen (though I don't think I saw the whole theatrical version, just parts of it)
Ponyo
Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro
Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
The Cockpit
Macross: Do You Remember Love?
Wings of Honneamise (though I don't remember much about it)
Vampire Hunter D
Robot Carnival
Wicked City (on second thought, can I deny that I saw that? In fact, let's skip all of the non-comedy hentai, before I embarrass myself any further...)

TV and OVA series
Ranma 1/2 (which is free to watch streamed on Viz's website now, BTW, and I am pretty sure it is also free via Crunchyroll. Definitely recommended, doubly so for the fans of Whateley Academy, of course)
Marmalade Boy (oh, I love this series! Awwww...)
Azumanga Daioh
Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt (OK, only part of a few episodes, really. What I've seen is pretty damn funny, though, at least if you like extremely bawdy and irreverent humor.)
Fushigi Yuugi (awww....)
Irresponsible Captain Tylor
Please Save My Earth
Martian Successor Nadesico
Slayers
Those Who Hunt Elves (*snerk*)
Kimagure Orange Road
Dragonball - I've watched through the first season, I think, and quite recently at that. I know I'd gotten to where Great Monkey Goku breaks them out of the cell they were put in, and Oolong ends up saving the day - by wishing for Bulma's panties, which stole that year's wish from Emperor Pilaf at the last moment. The original series is a lot funnier - and weirder - than DBZ and later, and has a lot of mildly racy humor; in particular, having the boy-crazy Bulma in the role of the monk (or nun, depending on the version) Tripitaka was an... unconventional interpretation of the character from Journey to the West, to say the least.
Dragonball Z - though to be honest, I know it better from the Team Four Star abridgment.
Yuu Yuu Hakusho
Jubei's Lovely Eyepatch
Magical Knights Rayearth
Aqua Age
GunBuster (that ending!)
Visions of Eskaflowne
Slam Dunk (meh, not my thing really, but if you like sports stories I guess it's pretty good...)
Nana (I only caught a few episodes, maybe three years ago, and while it seemed good, it was a bit incoherent and muddled)
Bleach
Big O
Tenchi Muyo - though oddly enough, I never really watched all that much of it
Princess Jellyfish - Again, I only saw the first episode, I need to go back and watch more)
Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan -Yeah, CalAnimage-Alpha actually showed a few episodes of that... worth seeing a bit of it, I guess, but the joke gets old pretty quickly. Also, I forgot how wretched the animation was until I looked it up again.
City Hunter
Bubblegum Crisis
Excel Saga - damn, I need to go back and watch more of that
Minky Momo - weird kids anime translated weirdly, yay!
Akazukin Ch-Cha - frothy mugs of water for all the little kids!

There are a few others I know where shown at CalAnimage but which I barely recall, such as Code Geass,Battle Angel Alita, Dirty Pair, DNA², and 3x3 Eyes. There are also several I've seen a few parts of on YouTube and such-like but never watched a full episode of. Also, I still am beating myself up over the fact that I bought the DVD collection for Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl but never got past the first episode before I lost my copy of it.

Macekres (series which got heavily edited or completely retooled when imported for broadcast in the US)
Battle of the Planets (I did watch some subbed episodes of the first Gatchaman series much later, but not many)
Star Blazers (which didn't actually take too many liberties with the story and characterization in Space Battleship Yamato, but there were several things cut or watered down)
Voltron - The original, that is. Oddly enough I preferred Vehicle Voltron (based on Dairugger XV) over the campier Lion Voltron (based on Go! Lion), but I didn't exactly either way.

Abridged series parodies
Dragonball Z Abridged - so much for the new episode coming out in July...)
Yu-Gi-Oh! Abridged - up to around episode, I dunno, 40 or so.
Hellsing Ultimate Abridged - yes, we do love cannons!
Final Fantasy VII Machinabridged - I know, I know, it isn't an anime, but it's worth seeing anyway.

But avoid Ranma 1/2 Abridged, it's terrible. Seriously, ugh, not funny - or even coherent - at all. A lazy insult to the original, the one who made it didn't care enough to even do a good parody.

I will probably think of more later on.

There was a distinct lack of shoujo anime.

From a writer's viewpoint, one could pick up some pointers on comic timing from stories like Fruits Basket (even if the ending is telegraphed from miles away) or Ouran Koukou Host Club.

IIRC, Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor may have been the anime adopted to comic book format that I kind of liked. Izumi Noa sounds familiar. It's mecha, but not focused on the nuts and the bolts. I did enjoy Tenchi Muyou! GXP as a comedy.

Edit: I can admit to watching Battle of the Planets, and Star Blazers.

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Bubblegum Crisis, Escaflowne, and Evangelion still stand... but branch out a little, there are some awesome non-mech anime that have been mentioned.

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Huh, and here I was figuring you as the Panty Fighter type, instead...

/me goes to re-check which series you had mentioned earlier

Uh, did the original post get deleted for some reason? Oh, well, we can simply list all the usual suspects for Mecha anime , even without knowing which you've already seen:

any Mazinger series or spin-off, AFAIK
any Gundam series
Macross (or at least RoboTech, if you can't find the original in Australia either) and its sequels/spin-offs (at least Carl Macek didn't get his grubby paws on some of those)
Super Dimensional Cavalry Southern Cross (which Unca Carl and Harmful Arsenicony Gold also have locked up, or at least did until recently)
Fang of the Sun Dougram, though the same Harmony Gold bullshit that fucked over Macross and Southern Cross applies here, too. I really hope that they will finally get released outside of Japan in their original forms now that HG has been properly spanked in court, and hey, maybe we'll get The Unseen back for the BattleTech games, too... though Classic Tabletop BattleTech seems to be gone forever, at least as far as any new material for it is concerned.
Neon Genesis Evangelion
GunBuster
Big O
Patlabor
The Vision of Escaflowne
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Code Geass, but it is not primarily a mecha series
Appleseed apparently has some smaller ones, but again, not the main focus
Sky Girls
Getter Robo
Go Lion (yeah, I know, I know...)
Giant Robo
Full Metal Panic
Guilty Crown
King of Braves GaoGaiGar, and apparently the Braves series in general^{[citation needed]}
Zettai Muteki Raijin-Oh
Voltes V

I mean, there's plenty more, take your pick.

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Huh, and here I was figuring you as the Panty Fighter type, instead...

/me goes to re-check which series you had mentioned earlier

Uh, did the original post get deleted for some reason? Oh, well, we can simply list all the usual suspects for Mecha anime , even without knowing which you've already seen:

any Mazinger series or spin-off, AFAIK
any Gundam series
Macross (or at least RoboTech, if you can't find the original in Australia either) and its sequels/spin-offs (at least Carl Macek didn't get his grubby paws on some of those)
Super Dimensional Cavalry Southern Cross (which Unca Carl and Harmful Arsenicony Gold also have locked up, or at least did until recently)
Fang of the Sun Dougram, though the same Harmony Gold bullshit that fucked over Macross and Southern Cross applies here, too. I really hope that they will finally get released outside of Japan in their original forms now that HG has been properly spanked in court, and hey, maybe we'll get The Unseen back for the BattleTech games, too... though Classic Tabletop BattleTech seems to be gone forever, at least as far as any new material for it is concerned.
Neon Genesis Evangelion
GunBuster
Big O
Patlabor
The Vision of Escaflowne
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
Code Geass, but it is not primarily a mecha series
Appleseed apparently has some smaller ones, but again, not the main focus
Sky Girls
Getter Robo
Go Lion (yeah, I know, I know...)
Giant Robo
Full Metal Panic
Guilty Crown
King of Braves GaoGaiGar, and apparently the Braves series in general^{[citation needed]}
Zettai Muteki Raijin-Oh
Voltes V

I mean, there's plenty more, take your pick.

WTF dude??? WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU THINK THAT???

I'm confused too. Where did the OP go???

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Huh, and here I was figuring you as the Panty Fighter type, instead...

WTF dude??? WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU THINK THAT???

Uhm, I don't. Hence the 'stuck out tongue' smiley. You are familiar with a thing called a 'joke', right?

(Of course, if this is you doing the same, disregard the previous sentence. This message will self-destruct in five Planck Time Units.)

Since you're into mecha, you definitely need to watch Gurren Lagann. Go do that now. And if you enjoy the attitude that Gurren Lagann has, you should also check out One Punch Man (not a mecha series, but still a blast).

If you enjoyed Code Geas for the plotting, check out Death Note. It's not a mecha series, though, so if you were only in it for the mecha and didn't care for the scheming, you can skip this one.

If you enjoyed Cowboy Bebop, you should check out Trigun. Very good stuff.

More generally, here's a short list of other anime I tend to recommend to everyone. They may or may not be up your alley, but they're worth giving a shot:

• Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
• Full Metal Alchemist (both FMA series are great, but if you only watch one, watch FMA: Brotherhood)
• .Hack//Sign
• Joshiraku
• Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (this one's a film rather than a series; I also suggest digging up the manga, which plays out a bit differently and fleshes things out way more than a movie ever could)

If you ever give Bleach a try, I have to second Phoenix's advice about only watching the first three seasons. Those are a lot of fun and they end at a natural stopping point, but the remainder of the series really drags. I've watched the bulk of it because I'm stubborn and I kept hoping it would pick up again, but it never really does. The beginning, however, was excellent.

Schol-R-LEA wrote: Uh, did the original post get deleted for some reason?

No, the forum just seems to have a bug at the moment where it ignores the first post when you move backwards in a thread. If you instead scroll up to the bit of the page below the nav-bar where it says "Forum > Crystal Hall > The Quad > Anime referals" and click on the thread title, it'll bring you to the version of the first page that includes the OP.

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Then I take it you are looking forward to Gen Lock from RT

Also if we count western stuff, RWBY by all rights should be considered.

mhalpern wrote: Then I take it you are looking forward to Gen Lock from RT

Also if we count western stuff, RWBY by all rights should be considered.

I don't really know RWBY, so I can't say. Overall, Mecha have never been a big genre in the US, and I gather the same holds in Europe.

The two older Western Mecha (or mecha-like) series which I know of were Exo-Squad , and the BattleTech animated series, both of which were from the 1990s.

While they were US productions, they were made mostly by Korean animation teams, and had a distinct anime-esque (or perhaps Manhwa) feel to the artwork. They both also fiddled about with CGI, which for the most part didn't work out for them.

BattleTech, like with the tabletop game, was a 'real machine' series (that is to say, they tried to give some sense of them as being mechanical and having mechanical limitations; the classic 'real machine' series is Gundam, IIRC), though they do sort of play fast and loose with that a lot of the time.

Exo-Squad's E-Frames were sort of mini-mecha - bigger than power armor or even Clan Elementals, but still not as big as, say, a Patlabor mecha.

They both had some solid moments, and stood out compared to most other contemporary US-made animated stories, but I would expect most anime Mecha fans to find them disappointing - and the places where they shine only underscore the wasted potential in the rest of the series.

I am a fan of both (and despite my fangirl love for the BattleTech setting as used in the games and novels, I would say Exo-Squad is probably the better of the two, in terms of both story and script) but I would expect that a more hardcore Mecha fan to find them pretty weaksauce.

Rwby isn't mecha anime but should be recommended, Gen lock will be however.


RWBY is the first western animation to get a Japanese dub. VAs are a mix of RT home grown and some pretty big names, two of which were used for some meta humor, related to other work they have been a part of. vol 1- first half of 3 are filled with levity, and action, second half of vol 3 "the feels, they hurt" vol 4 "feels recovery" and Vol 5 "there's still some scars, but everyone is back together and that's all that matters..." Well

CrazyMinh did include RWBY in his list of series that he's seen.

@Schol-R-LEA: I remember seeing a few episodes of a mecha series very early on Saturday mornings when I was little, but I only remember flashes and had no idea what it was, and that's been bugging me. Watching a few minutes of Battletech, I think that was it. Thanks.

No prob, Kettlekorn.

A note on the characters in BT: after the Great Diaspora and the Age of War, the states of the Inner Sphere that eventually formed into (or were conquered by) the First Star League were pretty jumbled up, ethnically and culturally. While most of the Successor States (members of the Star League who tried to gain dominance after the Amaris Civil War ended the League) reflect the background of their Major House - the Draconis Combine's House Kurita, Japanese; The Lyran Commonwealth's Steiner, German; the Federated Suns' Davion, Anglo-Hellenic; the Cappellan Confederation's Liao, Russo-Chinese; the Free Worlds League's Marik, Anglo-Dutch; and the Free Rasalhague Republic's Magnusson, Scandinavian - the individual worlds and regions tended to reflect the various migrations over the thousand years of human interstellar travel.

So, you have regions in the Draconis Combine such the New Samarkand District; in Fed Suns (and later Federated Commonwealth, after marriage of First Prince Hanse Davion and future Archon Melissa Steiner), the franco-hispanic Crucis March; in Lyran Commonwealth, Isle of Skye; and in Cappellan Confederation, the Duchy of Tikonov; and in don't even try to figure out FWL. Further, the Major and Minor Houses all intermarried over the years, at least to some degree, and border regions tend to go back and forth pretty often during wars and political deals - indeed, the Free Rasalhague Republic was formed from a Draconis district only fifteen years prior to the Clan Invasion, after the head of ComStar (Myndo Waterly, a backstabbing bitch but politically savvy enough to know when to do what was right) pressured Theodore Kurita into recognize their independence on the basis of it being a buffer state with the Lyran worlds. And each district had worlds which were settled by groups outside of the dominant one, or which have had so many different migrations, refugee crises, and invasions that trying to figure out the different influences and gene pools would be pointless.

My point is, the diversity seen in the characters is entirely in keeping with the state of the Inner Sphere; they even got it sort of right, actually, such as having a Rasalhaguean captain for the JumpShip Katana, as plenty of people from there chose to remain with the Combine.

I should add that I once played a tabletop Classic BattleTech mercenary Regiment commander in the period a few years after the Fourth Succession War (3028-3030) who had been in the Draconis military (but had to flee over trumped up charges), whose name was Israel Brahmaputna Kintaro, and this was considered completely ordinary. Another one, from a period set just before that war (around the time when the Gray Death Memory Core was discovered), was named Gavin Bullock, who was from a world in the Lyran Commonwealth whose original settlers were from (among other places) the US, Italy, and East Africa.

Getting back to the animated series, there are a lot of little bits of setting lore which they get almost right, but are still annoyingly off. For example, the fact that the Strikers and other Inner Sphere characters tend to swear by Kerensky rather than Blake is a bit annoying, though not entirely wrong. Conflating Alexandr Kerensky with his son Nicolai is, meh, acceptable as a way of avoiding too much exposition, but still is a bit of an eye-rolling moment for fans of the lore.

The parts where the JumpShips are attacked also don't really bring across how big a deal that was, either, but it would have needed more exposition to explain it. During the Second Succession War (2830-2864), jump drives became lostech - they couldn't build new ones, so working JumpShips became off-limits, as destroying one hurt the entire human race's ability to travel interstellar distances (both Comstar and the Clans still had the technology to build them but no one in the Inner Sphere knew about the Clans yet, and Comstar hid the fact that they could to discourage major conflicts). Some older automated factories were restored after the Third Succession War (2866-3025), but they were just black boxes; they could repair minor damage to the systems to build the drives, but still couldn't build new factories or perform major repairs on existing drives, and the number of new drives built were about two per year. The Inner Sphere was just getting back to the point of being able to build new Kearny-Fuchida drive factories again when the Clans Invasion began.

Though I do think it amusing that they picked up the arrogant Ciro 'the Hero' Ramirez who briefly appeared in the "Blood of Kerensky" novel trilogy (as one of the others graduating from New Avalon Military Academy in 3049 alongside Kai Allard-Liao ), and made sure he got suitably humbled.

OK, de-railing over. Sorry for that.

While it is not exactly relevant to this thread, and definitely not related to Mecha anime in any way, I was poking through some of my old fanfics after I mentioned one of them in the Micro Scenes Discussion thread today, and found one I'd almost forgotten about writing . It's not an anime fanfic per se (it's related the the webcomic CRFH!!!), but it does show just how much I liked the series Marmalade Boy then (I still do, though I haven't watched it in a long time).

It's not my best writing; Dave in particular was acting way out of character. But the other CRFH!!! fans seemed to like it at the time. Also, yes, I was 33 when I wrote this. Anyone have a problem with that?

Also, the ending is sorta what happened with me and some friends when I got that very same set of 19 tapes mentioned in the fanfic, if a bit exaggerated.

Apropos of nothing: Anime GIFs with Sound playlist

Don't try to understand them, just let the crazy wash over you. Oh, I should warn you that they're are all at least somewhat NSFW.

I like #21 in particular, if only for the clips with Weird Al's "Eat It" x Shimoneta, Bruno Mars' "Treasure" x Dragonball, and Ice Cube's "Your Money or Your Life"/Excision's "Bring the Madness" x Black Lagoon

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Right. I've finished watching the first three episodes of Evangelion.

...suffice to say, it was...strange. Look, I'm a big fan of mecha anime...but I didn't quite get what was going on. The mecha are...organic...which isn't that much of a issue, but adds to the strangeness about it. I got the feeling that the show kept trying to reference another work, and google tells me that the work it references is the Holy Bible...O...K...

I'll come back to Evangelion at a later date.

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I've watched the first two episodes of DBZ, and have taken a break to write this before watching the third. Looks decent, though there are a lot of things that just seem silly. Then again: it's anime. It IS silly.

Going to watch the third episode after finishing this post

3.
Watched a bit of Gurren Langan. WTF???

I assumed it was going to be a real robot anime, based on what I'd heard. Instead I got a super robot anime....

While I like some super robot anime, I really prefer Real Robot genre ones, as there tends to be cooler-looking mechanisms on the robots. I mean, Gurren Langan is pretty decent...but the episodes were too short, and the characters were rather...well...young. I mean...how old are these kids???...They're not teens, but they've got a tiny robot with a drill...a f**king drill...where are the giant robots rocket punching the literal shit out of each other???
if you didn't get that, I was being very humourous. It was OK. But I didn't like it as much as I liked other mecha shows like Gundam)

4.
Finally watched more of Macross Delta. [sigh]...at least Frontier was slightly better. At least frontier didn't have the military robots f**king dancing to fight off aliens...AT LEAST FRONTIER DIDN'T HAVE EVERY SINGLE BATTLE DEVOLVE INTO A J-POP RAVE, COMPLETE WITH IDOLS SINGING AND DANCING INSIDE FIGHTER JET MECHA!!!

Then again, Macross seems to have turned into a Idol anime in recent years. I'm pretty sure the original Macross wasn't...this shit...whatever the hell it is,,,

5.
Gundam Unicorn. F**king Gundam Unicorn. I F**king love this show. First episode had me hooked. I THOUGHT it was a older one, but No!!! Aparently it's relatively recent. But My God!!!

The mechanical design was f**king amazing, the animation quality was amazing, and the unicorn gundam is f**king badass.

6.
Psycho Pass 2 DOES NOT EXIST!!!

Anyway, going to watch ep.3 of DBZ. See ya!!

Another one that occurred to me, have you seen Full Metal Alchemist?

Magic powered Mecha's/Golems, rather than Sci-Fi Mecha's, but it's cute.

(For a given value of "Cute....")

CrazyMinh wrote: Right. I've finished watching the first three episodes of Evangelion.

...suffice to say, it was...strange. Look, I'm a big fan of mecha anime...but I didn't quite get what was going on. The mecha are...organic...which isn't that much of a issue, but adds to the strangeness about it. I got the feeling that the show kept trying to reference another work, and google tells me that the work it references is the Holy Bible...O...K...

Yeah, Evangelion's weird. I enjoyed it, but it's kind of its own thing. And if the end of the series feels too abstract and half-assed, feel free to ignore it and watch the movie End of Evangelion instead.

CrazyMinh wrote: Watched a bit of Gurren Langan. WTF???

I assumed it was going to be a real robot anime, based on what I'd heard. Instead I got a super robot anime....

While I like some super robot anime, I really prefer Real Robot genre ones, as there tends to be cooler-looking mechanisms on the robots. I mean, Gurren Langan is pretty decent...but the episodes were too short, and the characters were rather...well...young. I mean...how old are these kids???...They're not teens, but they've got a tiny robot with a drill...a f**king drill...where are the giant robots rocket punching the literal shit out of each other???

It does start out small, but if I had to sum up Gurren Lagann with one word, that word would be escalation. Trust me.

Mister D wrote: Another one that occurred to me, have you seen Full Metal Alchemist?

Magic powered Mecha's/Golems, rather than Sci-Fi Mecha's, but it's cute.

(For a given value of "Cute....")

It's a pretty big stretch to associate FMA with the mecha genre, even by way of golems.

In the words of Gendo Ikari, the memetic Worst Father In Anime (at least until Shou Tucker, holy crap that was fucked up): Get in the fucking Eva, Shinji!



Regarding Macross, the Idoru aspect was there pretty much from the start (or rather, from the ending of the first series, at least that's what I understand to be the case), but the way it goes crazy with it from Do You Remember Love? forward, yeah, I can see why you may get frustrated with that.

These videos may be relevant, though I can't promise that CrazyMinh will agree with any of them.



Note that, as Misty says, this channel tends to pick recommendations that aren't as well known.


I'll keep looking for some others to post.

And just because I like Anime America, but none of them seem to be big Mecha fans, these might give you a few non-mecha series to watch - or avoid, in some cases.

Their Best/Worst for last year.


Most iconic weapons top ten.


I pronounce you GUILTY (pleasures)! Take note of #6... happy sigh


uh....


Get your brain bleach ready. Spoilers ahoy. As for the #1... well, let's just say Hell!Jade would sympathize.


Worst. And they aren't kidding. Pour yourself some more bleach...


I hope you still have some brain bleach left, you'll need it.


When it comes to the lamest anime villains, there can be only one... well, two... OK, three if you count Meowth (and if that's a spoiler to you... really?)


Also, because Robyn hates herself and loves being mocked:


Hey, CrazyMinh, that's the series you need to watch - YaoiYuri!!! On Ice would be just the thing for you!

And yes, that's a joke. Don't get mad, brah.

At the risk of monopolizing the thread for an entire page, I just realized that I didn't post links to any of the Abridged Series by Team Four Star (or LittleKuriboh, who started it all with Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged and later worked on DBZA). I am putting DBZA last, because CrazyMinh specifically mentioned he is currently watching the actually series and, well, spoilers. So:

• Hellsing Ultimate Abdriged
  
• Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged
  
• Final Fantasy VII Machinabridged
  
• DragonBall Z Abridged
  
  
  Also, the Cell vs. side videos (cameo 'challenges' against the likes of Yusuke, Saitama, Sonic the Hedgehog, Light Yagami, Ken and Ryu, Deadpool, and Ash Ketchum - but not Tennyo, that was just a fanfic I wrote .)
  

I've seen HSUA, and I f**king loved T4S depiction of the show. I honestly think that Takahata101's Alucard is so f**king better than the one from the original series. He's much better as a character, and much richer in his depiction.

Takhata101 is GUARANTEED to raise the quality of the abridged series he stars in. His Heathcliff in SAO Abridged was better, not just in depiction, but in the fact that HE DIDN'T FORGET THE REASON WHY HE TRAPPED TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE IN A MMO FOR TWO AND A HALF F**KING YEARS!!! He is one of the best, alongside YamatoSFX (Kirito, Shirou Emiya, Kuruko, Deku).

Wow. That's really all I have to say. Sheesh.

CrazyMinh wrote: 1.
Right. I've finished watching the first three episodes of Evangelion.

...suffice to say, it was...strange. Look, I'm a big fan of mecha anime...but I didn't quite get what was going on. The mecha are...organic...which isn't that much of a issue, but adds to the strangeness about it. I got the feeling that the show kept trying to reference another work, and google tells me that the work it references is the Holy Bible...O...K...

I'll come back to Evangelion at a later date.

Getting Mind fucked by Evangelion used to be a right of passage for true Anime geeks.

All I can say is if the first three episodes are confusing you I would pay money to watch your face when you get to the last three episodes

For the most part, my taste in anime doesn't really adhere to mecha all that much, so more for the benefit of others, I'll be listing my top 12 recommendations.

In no particular order:

Your Lie In April
Tengen Topp Gurren Lagann
Youjo Senki (Tanya the Evil)
Flip Flappers
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
Charlotte
Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku
Tsuredure Children
Boku no Hero Academia
Steins;Gate
Little Witch Academia
Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt

Wotakoi and Tsuredure Children are both rather good romantic comedies. Charlotte is rather relevant to this fanbase, as it deals with the early stages of powers developing in teens. Flip Flappers is a magical girl anime, but is visually stunning as it really likes playing around with the colour palette. Your Lie in April left me an emotion wreck when I watched it a few months ago, and I'm not entirely recovered from it - same goes for Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.

Since this topic came up, I have been wracking my brain and DuckDuckGo trying to find a series whose name I never found out for certain; I will describe it shortly, as well as mention those I thought might have been it but don't appear to have been.

But first, I will say that I did not expect to find a mecha series I hadn't heard of before on WatchMojo's list of (non-hentai) anime character's who lost their virginity over the course of the series, but it seems that the second entry on the list, Cross Ange, resides at the intersection for those topics.



Anyway, back to the series I am trying to find. All I know is that it is set in Antarctica (but doesn't seem to be Aldnoah Zero, which was the first one searching on that brought up), and involves a program to train teenage girls to fight some undescribed opponent using some sort of implanted powers, which may or may not kill those subjected to the treatment, and having to fight each other arena style to see who qualifies. Each of these young women has a male handler their own age or perhaps younger, and apparently some degree of UST (which may end up resolved) is par for the course.

Oh, and one Emotionless Girl™ (pat. pending, TropeCo.) who always wears big earmuff style headphones delivers an epic beatdown to one of the others while trying to break up a love dodecahedron squabble in the dorms, all choreographed to (IIRC) The Ode to Joy.

It was running on some animation channel in the post-watershed hours in the Eastern US - I don't think it was CN Adult Swim, but it might have been I guess - around the same time that the same channel was also broadcasting Nana; both were shown subbed.

Oh, and tits-out was a thing, though some pixellation was used (the person who was watching it when I first caught it said that this was introduced in the second season, with no censorship at all in the first).

I think it might be Aquarion LOGOS, but I haven't been able to find enough about it yet. I plan to check on Crunchyroll to see if they have it, once I've posted this, but I thought I'd ask if it rings a bell to anyone in case that doesn't pan out.

Schol-R-LEA wrote: Anyway, back to the series I am trying to find. All I know is that it is set in Antarctica (but doesn't seem to be Aldnoah Zero, which was the first one searching on that brought up), and involves a program to train teenage girls to fight some undescribed opponent using some sort of implanted powers, which may or may not kill those subjected tot he treatment, and having to fight each other arena style to see who qualifies.

Battle Athletes Victory?

Oh, and the mention of lesbian threesomes in Cross Ange (I'm not sure if the lead was involved with those, but she did find a male lover eventually according to the video) reminds me to post a few videos relevant to a significant percentage of Whateley fans, concerning LGBT anf gender-transformation anime. I would (probably unnecessarily) add that for gender transformation series and films in general, the Gender Bender page on TVtropes is a one-stop shop for series intros, but I would figure most people here already know that...



This is a general 'top ten' of TGTF films and series, but it does mention a number of anime. The video is... meh. Still, relevant.


I really want to watch this series, I only saw the first episode as I mentioned earlier.



How much do I like Ranma 1/2? The first time I went to a CalAnimage showing, it had been raining that day, so before going up to the chack-in table, I slid my umbrella into the top loops of my backpack, tied a bandanna on my head, and went up the table and demanded, "Which way to Furinkan High School?" Fortunately, those at the table did appreciate the joke. As I mentioned (and linked to) earlier it is on the Viz Media website for free (if you disable your adblocking on the Viz site). Pirate copies get uploaded to YT from time to time, but if you can stream the official release for free or a nominal charge anyway, why bother?



While I don't actually know this series, I don't really love this Kamfer review, but I couldn't really find a better one:


I didn't find any reviews of Cheeky Angel, but apparently most of the series is on YouTube (uhm apparently pirate, though, so I would recommend watching in on CR if it is there). All I know is that it is a boy who gets a magic wish and tries to become an adult, but is misunderstood as wanting to become a girl.

BTW, has anyone heard if there are any plans for an anime version of Futaba-kun Change! ? I wouldn't expect it at this late date (the manga run was about 20 years ago, I think) but hope springs eternal...

null0trooper wrote:

Schol-R-LEA wrote: Anyway, back to the series I am trying to find. All I know is that it is set in Antarctica (but doesn't seem to be Aldnoah Zero, which was the first one searching on that brought up), and involves a program to train teenage girls to fight some undescribed opponent using some sort of implanted powers, which may or may not kill those subjected tot he treatment, and having to fight each other arena style to see who qualifies.

Battle Athletes Victory?

looks at posted image Not even close, at least if that picture and the information I looked up are an indication. This series was waaaay grimdark in tone, and had a distinctly military/paramilitary feel to it. Not quite NGE or Akira level of grim, but at least as serious as the later parts of Gunbuster or Nadesico, except less mecha/spacefighter combat and more catfights and (implied) sex between the teen female cadets and there equally teen male handlers.

In the three or four episodes I caught parts of (which was in the summer of 2015), I am pretty sure that there was at least one fatality and one critical injury among the cadets, with one of them (I don't recall which) being from some kind of 'superpower overclocking accident' situation.

Also, I vaguely recall that the name I was told for it was something like "Winter Wind" or "Frost Wave", but I may be wrong, or the person who told me that may have been wrong, which is why I didn't mention it before. Thinking back, as well, the term 'vectors' mentioned in the Aquarion write-ups I read sound familiar too, though the write-ups about either the Evol or LOGOS series in that franchise still don't quite sound like what I recall seeing.

EDIT: have read up on the Aquarion franchise some more, I am now pretty sure it was, in fact, Aquarion LOGOS , though the fact that the setup for the cadets to boff their handlers seems deliberate may point to Aquarion Evol , which according to the TVTropes entry involved 'orgasm-powered mecha' (no, seriously, that's what it says). Sort of the opposite of Matrix-focused laran , I guess?

Hmmn, with regards to Robyn's video about anime-themed daikimakura : as you can no doubt imagine, a rabid comics and anime fangirl such as Sydney Scoville might be expected to be familiar with that e-store 's products, and she is... intimately familiar with them , in fact.



Damn it, they don't have any pillows with... notices reader, quickly hides e-store page doing, no, I'm not doing anything, what makes you think I'm doing anything?

I thought that this might be of interest to some of the people here.

Schol-R-LEA wrote: I thought that this might be of interest to some of the people here.

These patterns of behaviour crop up in every creative industry, whether it's engineering, finance, media, or manufacturing. The time-scales are different, but the behaviour is the same.

Thank you,

Ohhhhh....kay.... thank you, YouTube algorithms, for bringing this review of an, uhm, unusual? Yes, unusual anime to my attention.

Not a recommendation, really, but the review is pretty amusing in places.

Sorry for the thread necromancy, but... Seriously?


Also: isekai. Lots and lots of isekai.

Aha! I found the series I was looking for. It's called Freezing , with the specific fight I'd seen before being in episode 4 of the second series, Freezing: Vibrations, with the one who I'd mentioned delivering the beatdown being Charles Bonaparte (yes, 'Charles' for a female character, apparently).


The series appears to be a lot more... ah, fan-service-y than I remembered. Tons more, way past 'panty fighter' and verging into 'ecchi' territory. I'm almost embarrassed to have been looking for it, but then, it was less a matter of wanting to see the series than just having this itch to find out which it was.