Your favorite Manga ?

[Mithrandir]

What's your favortite Manga movie,Comic or serie?

Mine's Akira (unorignal I know) and I like Dragon Ball Z, (the early sagas).

[Ii Naomasa]

Favorite comic: Lone Wolf & Cub. It's the first manga I remember taking a serious interest into reading and have since managed to gather up nearly the entire series (thanks to Dark Horse recent reprint collections). Samurai fans should check it out, but be warned that it does take its time to tell it's main plot line.

Favorite TV Series: Far and away, SDF:Macross. My first memory of an anime as a kid was Battle of the Planets, but it was Robotech that truly got me with its story. Macross, from which the first major chunk of Robotech was lifted from, is by far superior to the American modification. If you like jets and/or big transforming robots, it's definitely a series to check out. If you remember Robotech, but dread hearing Minmay sing, you probably want to check out the original, as she sings so much better there.

Full length feature: Macross:DYRL is very pretty and my love of the tv show makes me favor this ninety minute retelling, but I think I'm going to go with my current favorite, Jin-Roh. The animation is very well done and I just like the emotional impact the ending had for me. Plus it happens to be an anime that's done well over here in America without having gratuitous amounts of violence or sex. And you can't lose when you have a Darth Vader meets WW2 German uniform piece of battle armor. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

To me, Akira (especially the 80's 'a-KIRA-a' version) has always been a bit overrated. It's good (not as good as the manga it's based on, but that's almost always the case, especially when you have to contract the story), but if I'm in an anime mood, it's rarely something I consider (unless I'm in the mood for just the opening fifteen minute motorcycle battle, which is still a classic animated action sequence).

[Baron Nogood]

Mine are Akira (it is just too good) and Ghost in the Shell. I only watch Japanease versions as the comical voices they put on yankee ones are obsurd

Cyber City Oedo was funny because it had lots of swearing in it ::Childish Smirk::

[deejayvee]

I've only seen a couple, but I really enjoyed Akira, The Max and the Ninja Scrolls.

[Tachikaze]

Quote[/b] ]If you remember Robotech, but dread hearing Minmay sing, you probably want to check out the original, as she sings so much better there.

Not to mention the American ones cut out her nude shots.

[redrooster]

favourite comic would have to be astro boy when i was younger and as i got older i read dragonball although it got a little boring by the time it got to goku's grandson.

fav series would have to be rurouni kenshin....its awesome. close behind would have to escaflowne and love hina(really funny)

lots of movies that was great for me ghost in a shell and the 2 patlabors were great cause before them i never knew you could create such dark moods and ambience with amination
didn't like akira, gave me a heaadache
princess mononoke and spirited away waas really good too

macross would be up there if not for the fact that minmei really gets on my nerves

[Alrowan]

Love Hina, Hellsing, Cowboy Beepbop, NGE, and Astroboy

[Azrael]

Ahhh, the memories.

Robotech. Ahhhh Loved that show so much. In one of my study breaks at Uni, I once rented the entire Macross Saga. Something like 6 tapes long.

Ahh, Minmei. How the images of fallen Zentradi, clutching those tiny Minmei dolls in their hands lent a humanity to what I had previously only been able to conceive as an evil, conquest bent race of malicious aliens.

Do you guys remember Goldorak? Oh man As a little kid, in Montreal, Goldorak was on French T.V. As an import from the U.K. (me that is) I can never remember another moment that I wished I could speak French so badly.

Vampire Hunter D Why didn't they make a Vampire Hunter E???

Legend of the Overfiend was a bit of an eyebrow raiser.

Sailor Moon. I just couldn't get into it.

They keep promising me a Robotech game for my Gamecube. Well, living in the U.K., I probably won't see it till late 2003.

Azrael.

[Sir Chauncy]

Without a shadow of a doubt my favorite manag ever is Ninja scroll. Simply class. Normally, animators skimp a bit on the fighting bacause it is both hard and expensive, but the fight between the stone demon at the star and the fight right at the end of the film are some of the best ever. Period.

[monkian]

I have Ninja Scroll on DVD and was hugely impressed.

Theres a channel called CNX on ntl digital in the UK that shows nuttin' but anime : )

It has Dragonball Z, Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, Spawn to name a few.

Its my favourite channel http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

[ICantSpellDawg]

COWBOY BEBOP, trigun, pokemon

[dclare4]

Check out A TOMBSTONE FOR FIREFLIES. Its an anime set in the closing days of World War 2. I guarantee its gonna make you weep. Powerful stuff

Gloucester

P.S.
I read somewhere that Road to Perdition (Tom Hanks, Paul Newman) is based on Lone Wolf and Cub.

[Zen Blade]

Cowboy Bebop.

Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Second tier:

Lordoss War
and some lesser ones of interest Crest of the Stars ain't bad... Beserk appears to be a decent new one.

It's hard for me to like single 1hr-2hr movies.
Ghost in the Shell is awesome when you look at the art and the story is decent, but they really crap out at the end (badly).
Akira is nice and thrilling, but doesn't really have the character "attachment" that the other great ones have.

-Zen Blade

[Zen Blade]

HEY

What happened to my icon... I don't see it anymore...

-Zen Blade

[TenkiWarPRIEST]

OWW Zen becareful with that sword you've been De coned

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[Ckrisz]

Favorite anime: COWBOY BEBOP, hands down. Quality on so many levels it's ridiculous. The movie is also excellent. Yoko Kanno's soundtrack is flawless. The show also features one of the best English dubs in dubbing history.

This is a show that can be appreciated purely on its surface qualities, for the coolness of the characters and the total integration of the music, as well as maintaining the flow and mood of bebop jazz as well as any visual medium can.

Watching it again will put you in touch with the real emotional heart of the story, much of which is unsaid but which is as clear as a bell nonetheless. A masterpiece.

Second favorite: BERSERK. This is being released over here, and while its animation is crude, action scenes are nothing remarkable, and its story is, to put it mildly, unfinished, I have seen few movies/TV shows/books that ever made you care so much about a few characters. Unflinching in showing the brutality of medieval European life, and the characters of Guts, Caska, and Griffith will stay with you long after you've seen the series.

BERSERK is VERY adult in nature, and it ends at episode 25 pretty much in the middle of the story. But you should still get it.

Favorite manga: NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND. Hayao Miyazaki's finest work. Works as both an epic story of war and redemption and as the personal story of a young woman maturing into a true leader. Violent, brutal, but never losing that core of ferocious naive hope for something better that is common with all Miyazaki heroines. Not to mention that the charge of the Torumekian cavalry put a shiver in my spine, something that I've never experienced from a comic book before or since.

Second favorite: BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL. Owes a huge debt to chanbara and predecessors like LONE WOLF & CUB, and subverts their myths as well. Superb wild action and the definitive ronin antihero in Manji. I'm still waiting for this story to reach deeper and become a true classic, but it's a rollicking fun ride all the same.

[Zen Blade]

Hey Priest

long time no see.
hope you are doing well.
Just cruising about... actually, I should be working on something as it is just bad midnight and I will be up at 6:30 and I have 2 or 3 things to do by tomorrow morning...
how's Tenki doing?

talk later mate... (sorry, I am taking thread in a different direction).

I agree a lot with Ckrisz.
you should check out Farscape if you like those qualities in a story. (not an anime, is a sci fi show)

-Zen Blade

[MacGregor]

Blade of the Immortal is a kick ass comic. The main character is a Samurai who cannot die until he kills 1000 evil men in order to atone for his sins.

For movies, The Vampire Hunter D ones, Ninja Scroll.

[bosdur]

Dragon Ball Z, read all the stories 4 yrs ago except DBZ GT, Yuyuu Hakusho, currently liking Yu-Gi-Oh.

Used to watch pokemon http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif.