You haven't turned me off of the movie. I'm just not in the mood tonight.
DBZ was one of my early anime fandoms, as well. For those of us who discovered anime with the Sailor Moon / DBZ / Gundam Wing generation in the 90s, it's hard to escape DBZ. I was definitely in it for Vegita more than Goku, though.
I started watching the Naruto anime on a recommendation from I guy I went on a single date with; I ended up liking the anime a lot more than him. ::laugh:: He also recommended sCRYed, which I found almost unbearably dull and absurdly illogical.
I've tried a couple times to get into Bleach. I read the first few chapters, watched the first three episodes. It looked like a hodgepodge of a lot of things I'd seen before (YYH, Ranma 1/2, Inuyasha) and since I was fresh off watching stuff like FMA, Naruto, and Fruits Basket my expectations were running quite high, a little too high for Bleach to satisfy me. But I've been assured that it gets better with time, so I've downloaded a lot of the manga and might try to pick it up.
I watched all the way up to episode 80 or 81 with Inuyasha before my attention drifted. I still find it entertaining, but I've gotten disillusioned with it and impatient. I'll probably look up the ending at some point once the manga finishes. Or maybe read the last few volumes.
CB took a long time, but eventually became one of my fandoms. I hold it close to my heart but unlike a lot of devotees I freely discuss its flaws (some people would have you believe its flawless; it's not, it's merely ambitious and very entertaining.)
FLCL I hated the first time I saw an episode, then two years later I watched all the eps in a row and I adored it. FLCL is very much a niche thing, but oh it is SO my niche.
FMA is simply my favorite anime to date. FMA+Rashaka=OTP. FOREVER.
Now that I know what you're into, I'll think of some good titles for you.
I avoided watching sCRYed because of something you said in a post when they were starting to play it. I caught the beginning and end of a couple of episodes and that was painful enough for me.
I remember when AS kicked off Inuyasha for the first time. Think "What the hell is this?" and after the first episode feeling pain at missing the following episodes. Never watched something that kept me wanting more (before FMA) and after a while, it got stale. Yes, we need to do this...ok, but now we need to do this...fine, oh crap, we need to go back...wtf! I expect stupid fetch quests from my Final Fantasy games, not this!
I've only seen the anime played on AS, and I thought it was probably the best anime I'd ever seen. When recommending an anime for people never having seen any, I'd always go to that since it doesn't take much to get into it. You don't have to watch it from the beginning (but it helps) and I loved how it left so much open to the imagination. Just the whole Spike/Vicious/Julia thing...I don't know how to explain it. Not knowing if it's explained in more detail other places, they give the viewer so much to make up for themselves. Huh, I think I just gushed for a moment there. Sorry.
I think I felt the same about FLCL the first time. This is just random insanity for the hell of it. But then I kept watching and discovered that it wasn't something to be judged individually, but that had to be taken in as a whole.
I left out a couple of things. Gundam (of which I know there is so many) and um the wolf one...sorry. I forgot the name. I think I liked that one because it was just so depressing. It was like "Can't win, don't try" And with Gundam, I only got into um, er, "War in the Pocket" and "Endless Waltz" at least I think those are the ones.
I've only seen the anime played on AS, and I thought it was probably the best anime I'd ever seen. When recommending an anime for people never having seen any, I'd always go to that since it doesn't take much to get into it. You don't have to watch it from the beginning (but it helps) and I loved how it left so much open to the imagination. Just the whole Spike/Vicious/Julia thing...I don't know how to explain it. Not knowing if it's explained in more detail other places, they give the viewer so much to make up for themselves. Huh, I think I just gushed for a moment there. Sorry.
Don't apologize for gushing! I gush all the time. I definitely see the appeal to CB-- in some ways it takes my breath away with its maturity (in method of delivery as much or more than content), and its beautiful incorporation of music as a thematic devise. For me the music was one of the things that really pulled me into CB-- the song titles for episodes (several Rolling Stones titles), the warped/rewritten lyrics at the end of every episode, the way jazz is incoporated with everything and the way the characters' attitudes and themes are lovingly reflected in and reflective of the music. I was also moved by the Spike/Julia/Vicious backstory, but not as much as I was moved by Faye's backstory. I honestly believed and bought into the emotions of Julia, Spike, and Vicious, but I always felt that the show was inadequate with characterization, and Vicious was never anything more than his name suggests. The anime gave us the aftermath of their menage a toi of doom, but they didn't explain how they got to that point and we never learned enough about Julia, Vicious, or pre-Bebop Spike, at least not enough that I cared much when Julia died. I thought it was a wasted opportunity, one of several in the show. However, where Bebop succeeded it really succeeded, and overall it's a very good show. Since watching more anime I've seen some that are better (FMA, Escaflowne, Fruits Basket, Gungrave, Monster...) and some that are about the same but succeed in different ways (Trigun, for example, is not as pretty, as joyously rambunctious, or as lyrical as Bebop, but it's much deeper philosophically and more emotionally devastating.) Interestingly, I got more attached to CB after repeated viewings, and liked it on my 3rd viewing far more than on my first (which was partially out of order, though not the end.) And although the pacing and lack of backstory bothered me in CB, the fact that we get to know the behaviors of the characters so well as they are right now makes up somewhat for the fact that we know very little about who they used to be.
I left out a couple of things. Gundam (of which I know there is so many) and um the wolf one...sorry. I forgot the name. I think I liked that one because it was just so depressing. It was like "Can't win, don't try" And with Gundam, I only got into um, er, "War in the Pocket" and "Endless Waltz" at least I think those are the ones.
"GW: Endless Waltz" is the movie/OVA sequel to Gundam Wing. Both aired on cartoon network a few years ago. I've never seen "War in the Pocket."
The wolf thing is Wolf's Rain, which I only made through 3 and a half episodes of before I quit. Happily.
It wasn't Endless Waltz, sorry. It was Gundam 0083:Stardust Memory. They played it for a while back in the first few years of AS. Very long series and if you didn't catch it from the beginning you might not have cared to keep watching, assuming you like any of the Gundam Series. I was actually very frustrated when they started over that series and half way into it, they started "Gundam 0080:War in the Pocket" which I didn't even realize (not having seen the first part of the prior series) until two episodes into it.
Anyways...
Wolf's Rain wasn't that great. I don't think you missed much. Like you I got a few episodes into it before I gave up, then caught the tail end of the eps another night and watched to the end. Lots of stuff happened in there, lots of care never came for me.
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Date: 2006-07-01 06:47 am (UTC)DBZ was one of my early anime fandoms, as well. For those of us who discovered anime with the Sailor Moon / DBZ / Gundam Wing generation in the 90s, it's hard to escape DBZ. I was definitely in it for Vegita more than Goku, though.
I started watching the Naruto anime on a recommendation from I guy I went on a single date with; I ended up liking the anime a lot more than him. ::laugh:: He also recommended sCRYed, which I found almost unbearably dull and absurdly illogical.
I've tried a couple times to get into Bleach. I read the first few chapters, watched the first three episodes. It looked like a hodgepodge of a lot of things I'd seen before (YYH, Ranma 1/2, Inuyasha) and since I was fresh off watching stuff like FMA, Naruto, and Fruits Basket my expectations were running quite high, a little too high for Bleach to satisfy me. But I've been assured that it gets better with time, so I've downloaded a lot of the manga and might try to pick it up.
I watched all the way up to episode 80 or 81 with Inuyasha before my attention drifted. I still find it entertaining, but I've gotten disillusioned with it and impatient. I'll probably look up the ending at some point once the manga finishes. Or maybe read the last few volumes.
CB took a long time, but eventually became one of my fandoms. I hold it close to my heart but unlike a lot of devotees I freely discuss its flaws (some people would have you believe its flawless; it's not, it's merely ambitious and very entertaining.)
FLCL I hated the first time I saw an episode, then two years later I watched all the eps in a row and I adored it. FLCL is very much a niche thing, but oh it is SO my niche.
FMA is simply my favorite anime to date. FMA+Rashaka=OTP. FOREVER.
Now that I know what you're into, I'll think of some good titles for you.
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Date: 2006-07-01 11:13 pm (UTC)I avoided watching sCRYed because of something you said in a post when they were starting to play it. I caught the beginning and end of a couple of episodes and that was painful enough for me.
I remember when AS kicked off Inuyasha for the first time. Think "What the hell is this?" and after the first episode feeling pain at missing the following episodes. Never watched something that kept me wanting more (before FMA) and after a while, it got stale. Yes, we need to do this...ok, but now we need to do this...fine, oh crap, we need to go back...wtf! I expect stupid fetch quests from my Final Fantasy games, not this!
I've only seen the anime played on AS, and I thought it was probably the best anime I'd ever seen. When recommending an anime for people never having seen any, I'd always go to that since it doesn't take much to get into it. You don't have to watch it from the beginning (but it helps) and I loved how it left so much open to the imagination. Just the whole Spike/Vicious/Julia thing...I don't know how to explain it. Not knowing if it's explained in more detail other places, they give the viewer so much to make up for themselves. Huh, I think I just gushed for a moment there. Sorry.
I think I felt the same about FLCL the first time. This is just random insanity for the hell of it. But then I kept watching and discovered that it wasn't something to be judged individually, but that had to be taken in as a whole.
I left out a couple of things. Gundam (of which I know there is so many) and um the wolf one...sorry. I forgot the name. I think I liked that one because it was just so depressing. It was like "Can't win, don't try" And with Gundam, I only got into um, er, "War in the Pocket" and "Endless Waltz" at least I think those are the ones.
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Date: 2006-07-02 03:37 am (UTC)Don't apologize for gushing! I gush all the time. I definitely see the appeal to CB-- in some ways it takes my breath away with its maturity (in method of delivery as much or more than content), and its beautiful incorporation of music as a thematic devise. For me the music was one of the things that really pulled me into CB-- the song titles for episodes (several Rolling Stones titles), the warped/rewritten lyrics at the end of every episode, the way jazz is incoporated with everything and the way the characters' attitudes and themes are lovingly reflected in and reflective of the music. I was also moved by the Spike/Julia/Vicious backstory, but not as much as I was moved by Faye's backstory. I honestly believed and bought into the emotions of Julia, Spike, and Vicious, but I always felt that the show was inadequate with characterization, and Vicious was never anything more than his name suggests. The anime gave us the aftermath of their menage a toi of doom, but they didn't explain how they got to that point and we never learned enough about Julia, Vicious, or pre-Bebop Spike, at least not enough that I cared much when Julia died. I thought it was a wasted opportunity, one of several in the show. However, where Bebop succeeded it really succeeded, and overall it's a very good show. Since watching more anime I've seen some that are better (FMA, Escaflowne, Fruits Basket, Gungrave, Monster...) and some that are about the same but succeed in different ways (Trigun, for example, is not as pretty, as joyously rambunctious, or as lyrical as Bebop, but it's much deeper philosophically and more emotionally devastating.) Interestingly, I got more attached to CB after repeated viewings, and liked it on my 3rd viewing far more than on my first (which was partially out of order, though not the end.) And although the pacing and lack of backstory bothered me in CB, the fact that we get to know the behaviors of the characters so well as they are right now makes up somewhat for the fact that we know very little about who they used to be.
I left out a couple of things. Gundam (of which I know there is so many) and um the wolf one...sorry. I forgot the name. I think I liked that one because it was just so depressing. It was like "Can't win, don't try" And with Gundam, I only got into um, er, "War in the Pocket" and "Endless Waltz" at least I think those are the ones.
"GW: Endless Waltz" is the movie/OVA sequel to Gundam Wing. Both aired on cartoon network a few years ago. I've never seen "War in the Pocket."
The wolf thing is Wolf's Rain, which I only made through 3 and a half episodes of before I quit. Happily.
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Date: 2006-07-02 05:55 am (UTC)Anyways...
Wolf's Rain wasn't that great. I don't think you missed much. Like you I got a few episodes into it before I gave up, then caught the tail end of the eps another night and watched to the end. Lots of stuff happened in there, lots of care never came for me.