Well, I ran out of things to say a while back, so I'll just comment on this post. I'll keep it short and sweet. It's really amazing to see something like this. Alot of thought has gone into this post, and it is riddled with information on various anime series and movies. Kulilin even graced us with several of his extremely long, information filled replies. We've talked about everything from Go Nagi's series to Trigun, I even had the chance to post one of my UC vs. AC rants.(Although it never got a reply from that Xajaii kid...) Anyway, this post really is amazing. I've enjoyed taking part in it, and reading the replies from everyone here. Congradulations people, and I thank you for making it Ryoga. Anyway, before I get carried away, I'll shut up.

-Char Aznable, er, I mean Admiral Thrawn

brings in a big huge cake with 18 candles spelling out ANIME. well never mind i got it answered, there are 6 correct? hehe i sound like gendo ikari

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Yup, I 've seen the first 5 episodes of Beserk. I posted a review a few pages back but I guess nobody saw it. Anyway, to reprise my thoughts about it, it has got to be one of the most creepiest series out there. There is tons of blood and the main character, Gutts is one of those borderline villain types. Very very dark series. There's also a bit of near yaoi situations involving Gutts and Griffith having a bath fight. Ugghhh. Still a cool series though, I highly reccomend it.

Another series I reccomend is FLCL. It's made by the same company who made Nadia, KareKano, and Eva, so you know it's one of those "crazy" types of anime. After watching the first three OVA episodes, I'm still not 100% sure exactly what the story is. It's that crazy. Anyway, from what I could piece together, the story is about a 12 year old japanese kid whose older brother goes off to america to play baseball. His brother leaves behind a 17 girlfriend who constantly hits on the 12 year old brother as kind of a replacement for the older brother. Through some wierd circumsances, this kid gets an alien maid working for him, and somehow has robots sprouting out of his head. Wierd, wierd stiff. What'll those crazy guys at Gainax think of next?

Anyway, I'm going on one of those spiritual enlightenment type of deals for two weeks. That means I have to completely give up TV, the internet, anime, figures, and basically anything material. I even have to go outside, and get this, exercise.
Hopefully I don't loose the little sanity I have left.

See yah around "otakus"

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In response to Cland97's question, I don't know the name of the song Spike whistles (probably no one does, I've never seen it mentioned anywhere). However, I do know that song from Mushroom Samba. The song is called "Chicken Bone." It's a funny little song, but it makes absolutely no sense. Like these lyrics for instance:

"I like, you like, she likes, he likes chicken bone
Everyone loves like a crazy chicken bone
My dog, my cat, my mouse want chicken bone
I left my head over the chicken bone"

bye sanjuro, we'll miss u... and let the force be with you. all i would like to add is after i finish EVA i will go to bebop and then kenshin. i would go to kenshin first but i don't really know how long kenshin is. how long is it DVD wise? and did they finish making all of kenshin?

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Kenshin is 90+ eps. The DVDs are up to ep. 31. Bebop is six DVDs, 26 eps.

Sanjuro, that's really neat about the spiritual enlightenment training you're doing. I've been doing quite a bit of training myself, though mostly concentraitng on the physical, and not the spiritual. I should start meditiaing again.

Char (I'm still going to call you that, since claiing you Admiral sounds...well, it sounds a tad yaoi. Or something.) thanks for the words of praise. Means a lot.

Atticus, I see your point, but this is the original, the one that the new General Anime board is based on. It's be like deleting DBZ because GT came by.

Despotes, thanks for keeping this thread open. I am very grateful, and so is everyone else it seems.

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thx ryoga. also to anyone who wants cowboy bebop (i dont have the money ) here it is: http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1444527588

the whole collection. anyway can someone tell me a little bit about bebop without any spoilers? i know nothing about it and i wanna bu the whole series. just because everyone sais it's good. thanks

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Cowboy Bebop is better than "good." It's absolutely stunning. It's the best animated series I've seen to date.

Cowboy Bebop mixes and matches all kinds of genres, styles and elements of pop culture, and comes out with an original and thoroughly engrossing show. I don't think it fits into any one genre particularly, but whatever it attempts to be, it does so well. Whether the series goes for drama, humor, action, suspense, or anything, it pulls all of these off beautifully. Cowboy Bebop is touching, funny, thought-provoking, exciting. It's wonderful.

The series is set in the year 2071. Mankind has spread throughout the solar system, living in large cities on planets and moons. The story follows a group of bounty hunters as they attempt to chase down criminals. However, there's a lot more to the story than that.

The main cast includes Spike Spiegel, the protagonist, the epitome of cool, and my favorite character in the entire world of anime. He seeks danger wherever he can find it and has a mysterious past that he has yet to come to terms with. His partner is Jet Black, a former cop, who, as we'll see, has some issues in his own past. They're joined by a colorful cast of characters later in the series: Faye Valentine, a woman with a huge debt and a murky past, hacker extraordinaire Ed, and the lovable Ein.

The story is fairly episodic, a fact that some people criticize, but there is a larger story as the characters come to terms with their pasts. Even though some of the episodes don't deal directly with the larger stories, every episode reveals some insight into the characters.

The stories are great (there wasn’t a single episode in the entire series that I disliked), the animation is top-notch, the voice cast (Japanese and English) does a fine job, and the music is absolutely fantastic.

This thread rules, I could just like live here and not go to other parts of the board now, maybe ill do that.

Covering various things...

FLCL is an amazing bunch of OVA's any anime fan has to see them! Sadly I never got to finish it cause it got picked up commercially before I could get the rest as fansubs. Haruko rules! I'm gonna have to but that Kaiyodo Haruko figure cause she looks pretty nice.

Thanks very much Atticus! for answering my question, now im off to find that song.

Anyone have any idea the title of the Bebop vocal bebop song that plays near the end of episode #24? God I love that episode, but it made me cry...

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Ah, Cowboy Bebop. As I type this I'm listening ot my custom Bebop CD "See You Space Cowvoy". I'll come back to that later though.

Bebop is one of the top series today. It just rules hardcore. Spike is the man; he practices Bruce Lee's style of martial arts, he has groovy hair, he's a sharp dresser, and he smokes, which is only cool in fiction; Jet is pretty cool; the behind the scenes guy, who can hold his own; Faye annoys me quite a bit, but makes up for it with her extremely nice rack (It's funny cause it's true); Ed cracks me up to no end, we should all ty to be a bit more Ed-like. Ein's a dog. Can't say much bout him, other than than he's cute. Vicious is the best foe from the past since Sabertooth. Gren was cool, so was Rico. I want to punch Asamov for being a stupid head and being mean to that very easy on the eyes chick he hung with.

If you see one ep of Bebop, see ep. 5 "The Ballad of Fallen Angels". The shoot out reminds me of the lobby scene in the Matrix (the creators did say they drew some stuff from anime...hmm, makes you wonder).

Anywho, in closing, I'll give a track listing for "See You Space Cowboy".
1. Tank!
2. The Real Folk Blues
3. Piano Black
4. Want It All Back
5. The Egg and You
6. American Money
7. Go Go Cactus Man
8. Waltz for Zizi
9. Spy
10. Space Lion
11. Rush
12. Cat Blues
13. Green Bird
14. Memory
15. Rain
16. See You Space Cowboy

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For those of you who are wondering about various anime DVD bargains:

OVA= OVA episodes
episodes= TV episodes

Outlaw Star- 26 episodes on 3 2-DVD packs (or six individual DVDs)
Bubblegum Crisis- 8 OVAs on 3 DVDs (plus 1 bonus "Hurricane Live" DVD); also available as a 4 DVD box set.
Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040- 26 episodes on 6 DVDs.
Phantom Quest Corp.- 4 OVAs on 1 DVD.
Moldiver- 6 OVAs on 1 DVD.
Iria: Zeiram- The Animation- 6 OVAs on 1 DVD.
The Slayers- 26 episodes on 4 DVDs (available only as a box set).
Slayers Next- See above.
Slayers Try- See above.
Knights of Ramune- 6 episodes on 1 DVD.
Tenchi Muyo- 13 episodes on 2 DVDs (plus a third DVD full of extras; available only as a box set).

thanks ryoga and atticus, i will start bebop after evangelion. if you find them individually on ebay they are around $10 so that will be an easy collection to start and finish. as for EVA, it's around $19 a DVD . that's the lowest i could find... if u can find lower then tell me! im looking for 5-8! thanks

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Cland97, the song from Session 24 is titled "Call Me Call Me." That song and "Chicken Bone" can be found on the "Blue" soundtrack.

Session 24 was a great episode, but I also liked the one before it, "Brain Scratch". You might think Session 23 would be overlooked, what with the important stuff in the last three episodes, but I thought "Brain Scratch" was really moving.

Just so people know, you can get all of the DVDs I mentioned in a previous post at this web site: http://www.animecornerstore.com/
They sell DVD sets in bundles, which I find, is an excellent deal.

I heard at one point that either Manga Entertainment or Urban Vision had the rights to Bezerk. Alas, they don't have the DVD rights, so we may never see Berzerk in the states (on DVD at least).

So, does anyone have any questions about Bubblegum Crisis? Anyone? *cue dead silence followed by lone gust of wind*

An artbook in English? Amazing. Now if olny that would happen to the DBZ Daizenshuus...

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*comes in nervously*
Hello.
*jumps as door slams shut loudly behind him*
I'm here.

About to buy a DVD player. Any recommendations?

Not for DVD players, but for good DVDs to buy.

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neon genesis evangelion 0:1-0:8= http://www.buy.com/
cowboy bebop 1-6= http://www.ebay.com/
trigun 1-6 (i think)= http://www.ebay.com/
castaway = http://www.amazon.com/
rain man = http://www.amazon.com/
rurouni kenshin (they haven't finished the series) = http://www.ebay.com/

and anything u want to buy. DVD's are 10x better than VHS so have fun!

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See my previous post. Also, arods, there are 8 DVDs in the Trigun series, not 6. Some other DVD suggestions (that haven't been mentioned by anyone else):

As I sit here at my desk, drumming the Trigun song "Fool's Paradise" with my fingers, I get to wondering: does Sailor Moon wear any panties? Accually, I'm wondering if there's any way I can restore my faith in DBZ. When I first got into DBZ two years ago, it was all new and fantastic. I couldn't get enough info. In the time of one year, I knew almost everything there was to know about DBZ. I revelled in my knowledge and enjoyed watching the dub. Then I stumbled upon DBZ Uncensored. While my knowledge only gained, the dub I had once enjoyed was now slightly tarnished in my eyes. And yet still, I bought dub tapes, "uncut" of course, and watched the fight with Frieza, Garlic Jr., and the first of the Androids. I took a great amount of pride in my massive dub tape collection. To this day, I have EVERY DBZ dub tape up to the first Imperfect Cell tape, minus the two Trunks tapes and first Ginyu tape that I got on DVD and gave the tapes to my friend. So for the time being, I was satisifed. Until I realized that nothing surprised me because I knew everything already. The knowledge I had so loved and cherished was my downfall. Then, Gundam Wing came on, and for the first time ever, I had other anime besides DBZ on my anime bookcase. And thus began the removal of DBZ from it's pallace in my heart, to a pre owned apartment in a neighborhood just above a slum in my heart. And now, like Dante Hicks at the utterance of Silent Bob's words in Clerks, I have a moment of perfect clarity to my problem: I still love DBZ. I always have and always will, dub, sub, or original. I have always planned to own the entire series of DB-GT. Now, with the DVDs, I will be able to own the series in Japanese. Many have called it insane and stupid for wanting to own the entire series on any format. But, I will, someday. It may take a lifetime, but I will. Because DBZ brought me to the dance, so to speak, and it's about time I started showing it some respect.

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Thanks everyone. Bought my Sanyo DVD player last night. Got the movie Starship Troopers to go along with it (it was the most interesting thing Wal-Mart had). Today I went to the mall and bought Dead Zone (the best DBZ movie released yet), Androids Invasion (Vegeta's SS scene) and Trigun $$60 Billion Man.
I'm probably going to end up buying all of Trigun. I haven't laughed at an anime this hard since I popped in my first Ranma tape. The art is great, the characters great, everything great. Absolutely loved it. My theory: Vash isn't really Vash, but in fact, the little black cat is really Vash. 0_o Dead Zone is great, it's probably the best-dubbed hunk of Dragonball avaliable in the states. The features were cute, I especially liked the "Namek-language version". On the other hand, FUNi's Androids DVD could have used quite a few more options. The subtitles were AMAZING, though. It was like watching the world's best fansub--Kuririn-san, Son Goku, and Yamucha, and the fact that Artificial Humans don't have ki, as opposed to Krillin, Goku, and Yamcha realizing that they can't sense the Androids' power levels.
What's everybody's favorite Dragonball DVD? Which one should I buy next?

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Man! In all the time I have been on this board, I have never, ever seen a thread this long!

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0083 was okay at best.(By Universal Century standards that is.) Sure, the GP-02 is extremely cool, and Monsha still makes me laugh out loud, but there's just something about it that doesn't settle with me. I still enjoyed most of it though. Anyway, I suggest picking up the MSG Trilogy(only on VHS at the moment), and The 8th MS Team(VHS and DVD). Try 0080 as well. Sure, 0080 is extremely short, and isn't exactly "action packed," but the story is great, and when the action starts, it really kicks.(The Gunfight in Episode Four was awesome.) If you can get fansubs I suggest Zeta Gundam. You can skip ZZ, just read up on it.(I really dislike ZZ) From there, you can pick up CCA.

Hey guys, this is a monster post that has given me a lot to think about but I've never posted. One suggestion that I think would be more productive is to begin a separate post about each different anime discussed. Specific movies/series are hidden amongst this thread and newbies probably see that this post is 18 pages long and don't even bother to read the history. You've actually started a small club of your own in a way.

Moderators what do you think? Anyone else have an opinion? I'm not trying to be hostile, just trying to make this post more accessible to everyone else.

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im getting collection 0:3 and 0:4 of evangelion and i'm really close to having enough money for 5. everything's goin my way ^_^. im getting 0:3 and 0:4 today! what does everyone think was the best DVD, so far i think 0:2,

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-Soda-, I have to at least give you points for being curtious. However, I really don't think that this thread should be abanodoned. It IS like a club, and just because some newbies are too lazy to read some of the thread, dosen't mean we should shut down. As an avid reader myself, it would just go against my grain to stop posting here because of some lazy illiterate newbies (not you -soda-, but you know who 'm talking about). If someone wants to know about a series, they can post their own thread or come here. Heck, with few exceptions, we'd love to have them. You see, I started this thread to be an open forum for anime, for those WILLING to learn to come and ask their peers and glean knowledge from them. My goal will never be complete, because there's always somebody who want to learn, and will read this thread over to learn. I made this thread for the lovers of anime who wished to kick back, and let fly with their knowledge, bettering the cause of anime. The day this thread shuts down, is the day I leave this board for good.

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ryoga u can just make a new one! anyway, im a memeber of the club so i refuse to this thread bein shut down! i like my new collection 0:3 and 0:4 and i already started watching for 0:5! on ebay

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There's really no need to go back and read this entire thread. I just started posting here a couple of days ago, and I feel very welcome. I haven't read anything past the current page. If I have a question, I'll ask it. I'm pretty sure noone will eat me alive if it's been discussed before.

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Rosy, you're always welcome here.

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Why thank you, Ryoga...I just didn't feel right posting here until I bought my DVD player...

Anyway, a question I asked earlier: What's everyone's favorite Dragonball Z DVD? Like, if I was only going to buy 2 or 3, which should I buy? I already have Androids Invasion and Dead Zone. I loved hearing Chi Chi say, "What the HELL do you want?!"

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I know this might be a weird question, but did anyone ever considered some video games do have some in their own style have animes?
ex:
Final fantasy 1/2/3/4/5/6/7/8/91/10/11/12/tatics
Chrono trigger,Chrono cross,
star ocean,lunar star1/3 and may many more.

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Hmm...good DBZ DVDs...in truth, I only have three, but I can at least suggest two of them: the Trunks DVDs. C'mon, they have so much neat swag: Frieza getting cut in half (and thirds, and tenths, and fifteenths, etc.); Bulma and Vegeta bantering; Trunks (if he wasn't so boy bandish I'd like him more); King Kold getting a royal (heh, get it, he's a king...ok, I'll shut up) beat down before being macked brutally; Bulma having abandonment issues (c'mon, before Namek she stayed as far away from battle as possible. Then they left her alone for about what, a month [hard to tell with those 3 hrs] equaling days time zone they have). When they get back, suddenly, she just HAS to see Frieza, and refuses to be left behind [you would too, admit it]); and of course, Vegeta in a pink shirt (gawd I love that line from the dub:

Vegeta (noticing Trunks staring at him): What!? You've never seen a guy in a pink shirt before!?
Trunks: Uh no...I like your shirt...
Vegeta: You would.)

Oh, BTW, the Z Warriors Prepare DVD will have the eps of the second Trunks DVD on them, as well as the eps that appeared on the tape.

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Yeah I'm definitely getting the Z Warriors Prepare DVD. If just for the sheer # of episodes on it. Plus they're good eps, too, with Goku and Piccolo's driving lesson thrown on for good measure. *chuckles* I love that episode. And since I'm getting that, I'll probably get the first Trunks disc too, just like I'm sure I'll eventually buy the next Androids one, just to see Vegeta yell "BIG BANG ATTAAAAAACK!"

To anyone that has the VHS Z Warriors Prepare: The World of DBZ feature that's on this tape...is it the same as the feature on my Androids DVD? Cause this little film bugs me. It's long and annoying...

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I'm pretty sure it is the same feature. And I also agree that it sucks.

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Heheh, yeah.

Anyways, Ryoga, thanks again for the warm welcome I've recieved here. I already feel like "part of the club". I've even gone back and read most of the preceding 17 pages. And thanks for not leaving. I'm only just getting to know everyone here, and I'd hate to grow up in this thread, and the board that spawned from it, without knowing the person that started it all.

In other news, this is Rosy's 700th post. Cheers!

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Well, I for one am very happy to see thet Ryouga is staying. I really would have been quite sad if he had left, I dont care if he would leave forever or just for a bit either way I would have been a bit sad. I told a few of you what I might have done had he left, was a serious? maybe...

Ryouga the man of a few names, but he's still the same great he's always been.

Ryouga Hibiki/Legato Bluesummers/Pilaf-sama13...one of my fav people!

To keep this anime related eveyrone go read One piece! its the best manga to come out since DragonBall.

Heh, notice how I posted this in the Anime thread and not in the other...

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Ryoga was Pilaf_Sama??? Oh okay cool, now I know where he went He didnt leave at all

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this is THIS IS BIG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i cant believe this

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Way to go Cland, spoiling my secret identity Yes, I'm Pilaf, Legato, and Ryoga. What will my next name be? It could be anything from Pantshose Tarou to Shikijou to Nicholas D. Wolfwood to Da Big Kahuna to Tatewaki Kuno. You just never know.

For those of you who wish to meet my celebrity self *insert snorts and giggles*, I'll be attending all three days of Otakon. Hope to see you there.

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