Thread: Favorite anime

I haven't really watched too many, and most haven't been all the way through, either. If emory serves, these are all I've seen at least a few episodes of Sailor Moon Pokemon Gundam Wing Dragon Ball Dragon Ball Z Dragon Ball GT Hamtaro Tenchi Muyo Samurai Champloo Trigun Cowboy Bebop Inuyasha FLCL Paranoia Agent Witchblade Popotan Mushishi Ikki Tousen Excel Saga I think that's all in the order I've watched them in, too, though I'm not certain. Gonna include a potential spoiler warning here just in case. I'd watched Sailor Moon when I was really young, or young enough to remember having lost my first tooth while watching the show, so I guess it's a bit special, as well as a possible explanation as to why I like more dominant girls like Mars. I'd gone back to rewatch it for the first time since then, but have yet to finish it. Hopefully the website that has it is still up because it's been more than a few months. Pokemon was a big thing among all the kids back then, from the cards to the video games and obviously the tv show. The first season was ok, but I have not watched it since, and don't much care to. I don't really like it when things seem to be specifically aimed at kids because it feels way too forced. The first movie was pretty good, but after that they've gotten a bit ridiculous. I think I was only really casual about liking Gundam Wing. Much of it just went right over my head and all I really cared to see was giant robots fighting with lightsabers and guns and stuff in space. The movie they hadI think it was called Endless Waltz? was fun, but it was still the same for me there, too. The Dragon Ball series is a bit weird. I believe DBZ aired on Toonami before the others, or at least it did when I started watching it. Admittedly it didn't really catch my interest until Trunks was introduced at the beginning of the Cell saga. It was enough to hold me for a long while, right up until Buu came in. Apparently I'm odd in that fat Buu was my favorite villain, but he was. Of course I started to lose interest when Buu became more stereotypical and it became clear to me what all filler there was and had been throughout the series. After that, the original DB came along, and I was unsure of it at first, but I eventually got to liking it much more than DBZ for its originality and humor and light heartedness. That and I find the plot and story way more interesting. There's not much I can say about GT, having only watched maybe a few episodes before giving up on it. Hamtaro was ok despite not remembering very much about it. I guess most of it was that my siblings and I had our own hamsters at the time so it was fun imagining what they would do when no one was watching. Also, the main character had a crush on a boy named Travis, which coincidentally happens to be my name, so it was funny whenever he came up. Tenchi Muyo was a little strange. Very straight forward for the most part - a buncha crazy girls wanna jump a relatively average joe's bones, pretty much. The thing is, I guess I didn't really understand why the story seemed to reset every season or so? It seemed the universe changed after every big epic event and characters would have different obs or come from different places or whatever. There isn't much I can say about Samurai Champloo, Trigun, or Cowboy Bebop, as I've probably seen the least of each of those. Methinks I probably should as they seemed to have very distinct styles. Inuyasha was alright, from what I've seen. As I understand it, it's still not finished? Or maybe I'm mistaken? Anyway, it can be a bit tame, and it does seem more romantic than anything else, but I don't mind because the story seems decent enough and most characters are ok. FLCL is probably the one I understand least. I don't think I understood any of what went on in it. Paranoia Agent was pretty great. It was pretty much only focused on the main story, only being 13 episodes long if I'm remembering right, so there wasn't much room for filler. It was quite abstract but nothing that could not be deciphered. Plus it had great music. Witchblade was meh....mostly just boobies. Popotan had boobies, too, but significantly lessthough there was a slightly suggestive ferret thing and had more focus on a sort of a light story - in the sense that it didn't have an exactly typical conflict or bad guy or good guys or whatever. Mushishi was kind of strange. I don't know whether they finished it or not, or if for some reason I decided to stop watching it, but from what I can recall, there was no overarching plot for the most part. Near every episode was more of a self contained thing. Not to say it didn't have good quality, though. Ikki Tousen was just really silly and very perverted. Sadly it seemed that they were trying to be a bit serious with it which lessens it a bit for me, because it just comes across to me as very convoluted. Excel Saga seems to be rediculousness done right. I don't think there was a single thing I did not like about the show. It was hilarious near all the way through and didn't take itself seriously too much at all. Funny thing is, there's one part towards the end that had me feeling worse for the main character than I have with most other serious showsI won't spoil what it is or when exactly it happens. Actually, another funny thing is that I didn't know what to expect, so I went in thinking it was just going to be pretty average. I wasn't sure what to make of the first scene, wherein I was at least glad that the main character immediately died because of what I thought at the time was unintentionally bad voice acting. So I guess my favorite would have to be Excel Saga, because I do think it is one of the better expressions of art in general, though as I said, Sailor Moon is still special to me, and Dragon Ball has a kind of classicness to it. Paranoia Agent is in there somewhere. I want to at least mention Inuyasha even though there is nothing particularly amazing about it - perhaps it's just the art style or me being a hopeless romantic.