(no subject)

[timepiececlock]

tiashome, I'm trying to yousendit.com the first 3 episodes of FMA to you, but I'm not certain they're getting through. The page keeps either cutting out completely, or returning to the main yousendit page, so I don't know. Let me know if you get them sometime within the next few days.

You have expressed an interest. I will not let you escape. You will watch this show and you will love it. *musical note* I guarantee it.

Comments

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

actually, I don't really remember what was on your list...

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, Outlaw Star, Hellsing, Naruto, Samurai Champloo, Witch Hunter Robin, Gungrave and I've read the manga for Battle Royale and Gunslinger Girl - they're a bit more violent but the study of human psychology in them is fascinating.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

For manga then... well, I haven't actually read that much manga. I've been following Trigun, Naruto, and Fruits Basket lately.

Fruits Basket I definitely suggest you watch/read. I don't typically like shojo, but this series really sets itself apart in terms of quality and characters and drama. It's on my top anime series list. I fell fiercely in love with it-- it's mostly a sitcom (and oh my god, it has the funniest scene I've ever seen in anime), but there's always this drama underneath that rears its ugly head every once and a while to bring The Pain and remind you that everything isn't so cute and cuddly and funny as it seems on the surface and that the characters are anything but simple.


The InuYasha manga is pretty good, albeit it gets repetitive in later volumes. But Rumiko Takahashi is nothing if not entertaining.

For anime... well you've got a pretty good list there. I would add to it these, in this order:

The Vision of Escaflowne - the series, NOT the movie. Because until FMA finished, I held this up as the best anime I'd ever seen. Better than CB or Trigun. In fact, Yoko Kanno did the music for Esca as well as CB. It seems longer than it is at 26 episodes, because its very packed. A great adventure story and the most complete classic love story I've seen on anime. It's a beautiful series. I actually have not really read fanfic on it because I was so pleased with how it ended that I never got the urge. The dub and the sub are both good.

As far as I've been told, the manga for Esca is very different than the anime, but I've never read it so I can't testify to its quality.

Fruits Basket - I love every character in this show so deeply. The metaphors and symbolism in this series and the themes are so pervasive and developed that it's fascinating. And good news-- the manga is almost identical to the show, but extends past it. I'm going to buy volume 5 tomorrow when it comes out. -- the dub and the sub are both well-done.

Neon Genesis Evangelion - This is a very hyped series. In many ways it is worth it; in other ways it is not. This show does have the prestige, however, of being the first anime to ever scare me, due to one particularly violently disconcerting scene in episode 18. However, the last two episodes are crap shit... you get through this very interesting provocative series and then the last two eps leave you burned like nothing else will. I guess they put out a movie to remedy that, but I've never watched it. Nonetheless, I highly reccomend you watch this. It's very interesting, very dark, full of symbolism, in some places will break your heart. It's not perfect, but it's very good. It was, I think, the 4th or 5th anime series I watched in entirety; I reccomend the sub a million ways over the dub on this one. The dub on this made me scream at the tv, it was cast so wrongly.
Also-- and this may or may not be of interest to you-- there's definitely a fan commeraderie that sort of comes with watching this show. It's like FLCL in that way-- you can go up to someone who you don't know who's seen Eva, and start an hour long conversation about this show and your reaction. Eva is, most definitely, a conversation-starter. You will not run out of things to talk about for it.

That's all I can think of at the moment. You've already watched Hellsing and WHR, which are also both interesting.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

I need to find the subs for Evangelion. I dunno what it is about my inability to be satisfied with watching a dub. At any rate, I watched about four episodes of that in dub and it was pretty interesting stuff. I'll take a look at Escaflowne as well.

You've already watched Hellsing and WHR, which are also both interesting.

Have you read any manga for Hellsing? I know I've bitched my ass off about not liking it much before, but after the fourth Volume, the story is less off the wall silliness at inopportune times and more serious and layered. The first two books left me cold, the third warmed me, the fourth interested me and I'm almost done with the fifth and Kouta Hirano finally has me.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I have not read the manga. 1, because I heard it wasn't that great, and 2, because I don't think it's what I'd enjoy in manga anyway. I watched the series for kicks, but was never very attached to it. I was impressed with the art and design, but the plots lost me fairly quickly after the Valentine Brothers. While an entertaining distraction, it's not a series I really feel any desire to pursue further.