Mega Anime Meme

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from fadingembers and arafel


Bold what you've seen all the way through; italicize what you've seen part of; underline what you own; add three of your own.

(I added like 30 to the end instead)


1 Rurouni Kenshin - Reminiscence (1999)
2 Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien (2003)
3 Full Moon wo Sagashite (2002)
4 Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) ...FMA is love.
5 Fruits Basket (2001) ... so is FB.
6 Cowboy Bebop (1998)
7 Gundam Seed (2002)
8 Last EXILE (2003) ...I'll watch it one of these days.
9 Naruto (2002)
10 Berserk (1997)
11 Trigun (1998)
12 Cowboy Bebop - Knockin' on Heaven's Door (2001)
13 Hikaru no Go (2001)
14 Rurouni Kenshin (1996) ...dubbed.
15 Inuyasha (2000)
16 Love Hina (2000)
17 FLCL (2000)
18 Rahxephon (2002)
19 Azumanga Daioh (2002)
20 Wolf's Rain (2003) ... this show was painful. Not because it was sad, but because it was painful to watch a bunch of annoying characters do nothing but walk around. And not die when stepping on mines, even though I wanted them too. Quit in the middle of episode 4.
21 Kiddy Grade (2002)
22 Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu!(2003)
23 Scrapped Princess (2003)
24 Onegai Teacher (2002)
25 Grave of the Fireflies (1988) ...this show made me hate the world
26 Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) ...this one burned me like I've not been burned before
27 Chobits (2002) ... this one just insulted me as a human being.
28 GetBackers (2002)
29 Full Metal Panic! (2002) ... tried, quit early. Not my thing.
30 Shingetsutan Tsukihime (2003)
31 Noir (2001) ... too slow for me. Might finish it someday.
32 X TV (2001)
33 Vandread 2 (2001)
34 Scryed (2001) ...quit after 8 or 9 episodes out of frustration with the moronicness of a) the whole concept, and b) the stupid things the stupid characters did. This show has no respect for or expectation of even limited intelligence in its audience. And plotwise it's a mess.
35 Tennis no Ohjisama (2001)
36 Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou (1998) ...seen episode 1.
37 Hellsing (2001)
38 GunGrave (2003) ...I'll watch it one of these days.
39 One Piece (1999) ... I like the manga better. And the dub=death.
40 Haibane Renmei (2002) ...I'll watch it one of these days.
41 Hajime no Ippo (2000)
42 Witch Hunter Robin (2002) ... interesting, but slow.
43 Saikano (2002)
44 Vandread (2000)
45 Uchuu no Stellvia (2003)
46 Great Teacher Onizuka (2000)
47 Hoshi no Koe (2002)
48 Chrono Crusade (2003)
49 Hunter X Hunter (1999)
50 Spirited Away (2001) ... I :heart: Miyazaki.
51 Vision of Escaflowne (1996) .. I own half, so I underlined half. Esca is amazing, and the best anime series I've seen until FMA.
52 Read or Die OVA (2001) ...slashiest femmeslash thing ever. Also, books!
53 D.N Angel (2003) ...not my kind of mindless fluff.
54 Slam Dunk (1993)
55 Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984) ...I'll watch it one of these days.
56 Initial D - First Stage (1998)
57 Gunslinger Girl (2003) ...got bored, couldn't finish it.
58 12 Kokuki [aka: 12 Kingdoms] (2002) Haven't seen, but heard it was good.
59 Ai Yori Aoshi (2002)
60 Serial Experiments Lain (1998) Quit early on, was spoiled, has happily felt no need to finish as didn't like it in the first place. BORING.
61 Ima, Sokoni Iru Boku (-)
62 AA! Megami Sama (1993)
63 Shaman King (2001)
64 Card Captor Sakura (1998)
65 Mahoromatic (2001)
66 Princess Mononoke (1997) I saw this in a theater. My first theater anime experience.
67 Golden Boy (1995)
68 Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986)
69 Midori no Hibi (2004) No, BUT I WANT TO.
70 Ai Mai Mi ! Strawberry Egg (2001)
71 Rurouni Kenshin - Seisouhen (2001)
72 Seikai no Monshou (1999)
73 Planet ES (2003)
74 My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
75 .hack//SIGN (2002) ...I'll finish this someday.
76 Seikai no Senki 2 (2001)
77 Ghost in the Shell (1995)
78 Kanon (2002)
79 Samurai Champloo (2004) ... SC is my popcorn anime.
80 Kidou Tenshi Angelic Layer (2001)
81 Mahoromatic TV 2 (2002)
82 Onegai Twins (2003)
83 Macross Zero (2002)
84 R.O.D -THE TV- (2003)
85 Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2001)
86 AA! Megami Sama: The Movie (2000)
87 Martian Successor Nadesico (1996)... quit after 1st episode, gave away my tape. That'll teach me to buy anime based on the VHS cover art.
88 Ultra Maniac TV (2003)
89 Yu Yu Hakusho: Ghost Files TV Series (1992) ...bleh.
90 Maburaho (2003)
91 Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex 1st GIG (2002) ...puts me to sleep.
92 Outlaw Star (1998) ...had a few redeeming qualities, most of them involving a the psychic cactus episode.
93 Ayashi no Ceres (2000) ... the violence against women bothered me too much to get into it.
94 Evangelion: End of Evangelion (1997) Remember when I said Eva burned me like I've not been burned before? I didn't even BOTHER watching this one after the tv series.
95 Akira (1988) ...someday I'll sit through the whole thing without getting pulled away by someone else. It's like karma doesn't want me to watch this whole movie.
96 Seikai no Senki (2000)
97 Kaleido Star (2003)
98 Love Hina OVA (2002)
99 Tokyo Underground (2002)
100 Excel Saga (1999)
101 Puni Puni Poemy (-)
102 Mirage of Blaze TV (2002)
103 Yami no Matsuei (2000)
104 Gravitation TV Series (2000)/OVA (1999)
105 Gankutsuou
106 Bleach ...quite after two episodes. Recycled Ranma 1/2 hijinks and a YYH copycat plot that's a waste of my time.
107 Angel Sanctuary
108 Blue Gender ...caught a few episodes in the middle. Would probably be better if I started from the beginning.
109 The Soul Taker
110 Loveless
111 Honey and Clover
112 Ranma 1/2 ....early Takahashi is LOVE.
113 Ai no Kusabi (1992)
114 Gensomaden Saiyuki: Requiem movie (2001)
115 Gensomaden Saiyuki TV (2000)... quit after 15 episodes caught it was stupid and I didn't like any of the characters and I was bored.
116 Dragonball Z ...I too went through all 7 phases of DBZ fandom.
117 Kizuna
118 La Blue Girl ... to my embarrassment, I have seen the first episode.
119 Earthian
120 Nazca
121 El Hazard the Magnificent World OAV
122 Comic Party (2001)
123 Here is Greenwood/Koko wa Greenwood (1992)
124 Dear Boys [aka: Hoop Days] (2003)
125 Kaze no Yojimbo (2001)
126 Heat Guy J (2002)
127 Crusher Joe (1983 movie & OVAs)
128 Sailor Moon (1992) ... my first anime!
129 Blue Seed (1994) ... I used to get series anime from Encore network.
130 Wedding Peach (1995)
131 FAKE
132 Petshop of Horrors
133 Fushigi Yugi ...my third anime, and to date the most addicting.
134 Saiyuki Reload
135 Blue Sub Six
136 Weiss Kreuz/Knight Hunters
137 Revolutionary Girl Utena (TV) (1997) quit somewhere in the middle of season 1. Not my thing.
138 Kiki's Delivery Service
139 Piano (2004)
140 Legend of Black Heaven
141 Paranoia Agent
142 Hello Kitty's Animation Theater S
143 Vampire Princess Miyu TV
144 Now and Then, Here and There ...I'll watch it one of these days.
145 Monster ...I need more of this NOW.
146 Tweeny Witches ...cutest thing ever, but with really cool-weird animation.
147 Princess Tutu And I thought I was over my magical girl anime phase. Apparently not, because Tutu is amazing and beautiful and mindbreaking and I will never not love it to pieces. AHIRU/FAKIR!
148 Macross Plus ...is really pretty and well done. A mature love story.
149 Victorian Romance Emma ...it's like a historical romance. But anime. But...VICTORIAN. It's so very Victorian. I adore it.
150 Tenchi Muyo ...is stupid.
151 Ah My Goddess! ... is too.
152 Digimon ... I got weirdly into it for like a month and a half. It was for Ken, the BtVS!Spike of the Digimon universe.
153 Gundam Wing ...my second anime, and has one of my favorite female protagonists.
154 Gundam: 8th MS Team ...I'll finish this someday.
155 Project A-Ko
156 Ranma 1/2 movies ...loved the second one better.
157 Sol Bianca
158 Please Save My Earth
159 Earth Girl Arjuna
160 Slayers
161 Gunsmith Cats
162 Betterman
163 Lupin III (tv)
164 Lupin III : Castle of Cagliostro ...LOVE.
165 Wings of Honneamise
166 Gatekeepers... too stupid.
167 Gatekeepers 21: OVA
168 Tokyo Babylon
169 Texhnolyze
170 Samurai 7 ...someday I'll finish it, probably.
171 Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade
172 Flame of Recca
173 Air [tv] ...too slow for me. Quit early on.
174 Record of Lodoss War ... couldn't get into it.
175 Magic Knights Rayearth ...I read the manga.
176 Perfect Blue ...SCARY!
177 Urusei Yatsura (tv)
178 Urusei Yatsura movie: Beautiful Dreamer ...very, very meta.
179 Escaflowne: A Girl in Gaia ... I hated this movie almost as much as the movie X. After watching the series, this mess of a storyline was like a wreckingball to my post-Esca haze of happy fan love.
180 Jubei-chan
181 Jubei-chan 2
182 Maho Tsukai Tai
183 Battle Athletes: OVA’s
184 Battle Athletes Daiundokai
185 Bubblegum Crisis
186 Bubblegum Crisis: 2040 ... watched a few eps, was bored.
187 Photon OVA's
188 3x3 Eyes
189 Saber Marionette J
190 El Hazard: The Alternative World
191 The Adventures of the Mini-Goddesses
192 Iria
193 Don't Leave Me Alone Daisy
194 Dual
195 Key the Metal Idol
196 Battle Arena Toshinden (movie) ... lame. But I watched it long enough ago and early enough in my otakuness that I didn't realize how very bad it was.
197 X (movie) ...the worst hour I've ever spent watching something on a tv screen. I could watch Eddie Murphy's "The Nutty Professor" intercut with bad animal porn for an hour and it would be a better spent hour than watching X.




...Dear god, I've seen a shitload of anime. And I've seen more that's not even on the list.

Comments

[flickums.livejournal.com]

153 Gundam Wing ...my second anime, and has one of my favorite female protagonists.

I gave Gundam a shot but quit after about four episodes because I found Relena to be horribly cliched and annoying. So I'd be interested to know what it is about her that you like so much, purely from a curiousity point of view. I won't pelt you with 'omgwtfbbq' style remarks. :)

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I came into the series in the middle, watched a third of it, then caught most of it again from the beginning, so my initial impression of Relena is probably different from yours. I also didn't have an idea for cliche characters at that point, since the only other thing I'd watched was SM, and Relena was pretty different from Serena/Usagi.

Relena starts the series as one type of person and ends it as a much different person. Fairly early on, I think around episode 8 or 9 (my memory of episode numbers is sketchy), she witnesses her father (the politician) be assassinated by Oz (the secret rebel faction within the Earth Alliance.) This has a serious affect on her, and she goes from being a schoolgirl with a crush on this boy that she knows is involved in something huge and dangerous (and fooling herself that danger is exciting, though she has real balls and her willingness to dive into dangerous things isn't fake, just rash)... to a girl who's now very confused about the politics her family's involved in and what is going on around her. She is angry about her situation and she is feeling helpless. And then someone comes to Relena and makes her an offer that will allow her an opportunity to change things.

Basically, GW has two intersecting branches of storylines going on at the same time. There's the storyline of the gundam pilots, most prominently that of Heero (who is far more cliche than Relena, in hindsight), and the storyline of Relena. Just as the pilots have the gundams as their tools for changing the world around them, Relena gets her own way... and it's not a gundam at all. GW is all.about.politics. This was probably one of the reasons I was so into it. It really is all about politics...dirty politics, actually. Relena in a way drives the main plot of the series because she firectly affects the politics of the GW universe, and the gundam pilots and other political/military groups react in various ways to the situations that result from that... war, peace, and otherwise.

I loved Relena as a character because she is the strongest character in the series. She is the strongest emotionally, the strongest in terms of influence over events, and the strongest in terms of personal willpower. She's smart, she's resourceful, and she's not there to be fanservice. If anything, that's what the pilots are there to be.

Actually, I like all the women in GW in some way, because they're all strong female characters. It's a nice change from a lot of what I see in anime, and luckily, since it was the second anime series I saw, it left a positive impression on me in terms of how anime portrays female characters. Shows with strong and competent female characters like GW, FMA, Witch Hunter Robin, Naruto, and Trigun often end up being my favorite shows.

The death of Relena's father is a spoiler, but in a series that goes 49 episodes, it's not that big a deal since it's an early spoiler. I'm also leaving out another part of that spoiler just in case you watch it some day; it'll leave you some surprise. But I can see how if you see just the first few episodes you wouldn't see the thing that changes her and affects her for the rest of the series.

Now, she's not perfect. While strong and interesting, Relena is also rash, and she has this mutual obsession thing with Heero that causes some problems. It's more obvious on her side at first, but he's just as weirdly obsessed with her as she is with him, and this results in a political conflict of interest more than once.

[riddering.livejournal.com]

106 Bleach ...quite after two episodes. Recycled Ranma 1/2 hijinks and a YYH copycat plot that's a waste of my time.

*winces* Ouch. I think that statement is so painful to me because...well, it's not true. While I agree the first volume (I'm going by the manga here since that's what I'm familiar with) is nothing spectacular, now that I've read the entire series so far it has become my favorite manga. (I actually hate picking favorites but I'm using that term here to express how much I enjoy Bleach.) I'm not trying to get you to read it since it's pretty impossibly to budge someone into doing something they don't want to do, but I do have to defend the poor series since your opinion of it reflects badly on me every time you see a cut-tag that says "OMG BLEEEEEEEACH!"

The Ramna-esque relationship between the main character and his dad is not a never-ending joke like in Ranma. In fact, that aspect disappears after volume 8 because his father is not present in the story to kick and be kicked around. The relationships between characters and any physical violence are not dealt with like Ranma at all after the beginning. The battles/fighting (and relationships, now that I think about it) are much more of the Naruto type than Ranma.

I can't say whether the early plot imitates YYH since I have no idea what that series even is but I cannot emphasize enough how much the beginning of Bleach does not reflect the entire series. The largest arc of the series so far is incredible and very unique from what I know of anime/manga. But even before that the manga twists into something creative. Really, I think the first, conventional chapters are there simply so the author could turn around and poke at those conventions early in the series. (Take the broody, angsty character who is revealed to have come from a group of people who had powers like the shinigami but were killed by the shinigami. When the hero learns about that character's past and confronts him about it, thinking he knows everything about him then, he finds out, ooops, that's not the real reason at all. Here, have something unique. Or the spoof on magical girl anime that the author pulls in volumes 5 & 6 in which a female character realizes she has powerful fairies all of a sudden and the readers rolls their eyes until the manga develops that power in a way that makes so much sense that when you see the faries come out to kick ass later, you totally don't even realize you're accepting the fact that the chick has magical fairy powers.)

*takes a deep breath* Yeah, you can go ahead and ignore this if you want. I'm just a nutty fangirl and it hurts me to see Bleach (and, by association, Kubo Tite and all the great characters) put down so harshly.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I know that there's a lot of love for Bleach on my flist. And while I don't understand the instant love because I was put off by the first few eps (and the first few manga chapters that were about the same), I don't think of it as reflecting badly on you guys or anything when I see you talk about bleach. Heck, I have a low opinion of Saiyuki too, and a lot of my flist loves that show.

I think some of this might be that I started in on anime a long time ago, so a lot of what I saw in the first two episodes of Bleach just looked like half a dozen concepts taken from stuff I'd already seen. The Takahashi-like hijinks put me off immediately because it looked like a straight rip-off of the Ranma/Genma relationship. And that manga is so popular and so classic that I can't imagine the person who wrote the bleach manga and the animators didn't consciously rip off of it. That's like making a science fiction story where the male hero finds out the villain is his father-turned-evil... and then trying to convince me it's not a Star Wars rip off.

Whether fair or not as an assessment, it just put a bad taste in my mouth going in.

And then the whole plot to me looked like Yu Yu Hakusho.

Here's a brief synopsis:

This story begins with 14-year-old Urameshi Yusuke, a hapless street urchin that, defying his generally poor character, dies while jumping in the path of a speeding car to save the life of a young boy. As a consequence of this good deed, Yusuke is given the opportunity to return to life and assume the role of Spirit Detective, an agent of the spiritual world that works to maintain the boundary between the world of humans and the world of demons. Along with his once rival Kuwabara and the two reformed demons Kurama and Hiei, Yusuke journeys into the heart of the demon world to enforce the law of the spirits.


...Basically it doesn't take long to turn into a heavy-fighting anime. There's the spirit world that's heavily involved in the plot, there's a female god of death tagging along who knows a lot more than the young, brash protagonist, and there's lots of other things that I saw in just the first two episodes of Bleach.


If those two things hadn't irked me from the start, I didn't like the way the first confrontation went with the whole discovering the power of Ichigo and all that. I could predict it by formula. It didn't feel new or interesting or inventive. It was just another shonen anime I could recite the fight scene for perfectly before the characters even opened their mouths.

Now, in all fairness, it's possible that Bleach is a good shonen fighting anime and I'm being unfair. But given stuff like FMA and Naruto that have broken convention for me as far as shonen series go (though I hesitate to call FMA a shounen series), it's possible I've been ruined for typical fighting shonen anime where everyone's a character type and I know all the types.

After people telling me ahead of the time that it was so wonderful, I guess I just expected it to be more... interesting to me. Been there, done that, seen it the first 5 times in 5 earlier series.


But lately I have been thinking about just skipping ahead a few volumes and picking it up in the middle somewhere. I hate to do that, though, because my natural tendency is to read things in order, from the beginning.

Since you and others have told me it's not the same as when it starts, where would you reccommend I start in the middle?

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you can go ahead and ignore this if you want. I'm just a nutty fangirl

Riddering no baka. You will always have my fellow fangirl love and I will not ignore you or your comments! And you are ALWAYS welcome to pimp your loves to me a million times over no matter how much I resist.


By the way, you should know by now that it's impossible for me to ignore a comment/reply/post to me that's more than a paragraph long. ;) I just can't NOT want to comment back.

Now look up at the pretty Kakashi and be happy. :)

[riddering.livejournal.com]

The point in Bleach that changed my interest from lukewarm to ecstatic was the arc that begins at the very end of volume 4/chapter 34 and goes through volume 6/chapter 51. Ichigo's foil is introduced during that plot and I became very attached to the story and characters during it.

If you want to start immediately with the Arc of Doom (meant in a good way) you should pick up with volume 9.

Of course, I recommend just sucking it up and reading from the beginning so you understand the relationships between characters before you read a plot that is all about the importance of certain characters to others and the consequences of those attachments and loyalties, etc. I found the first four volumes enjoyable for the introduction of certain characters and the humor and art but you may disagree. Bleach didn't inspire me to the raving I spew out now until the Soul Society arc (which begins in volume 9/chapter 71).

I don't really judge what anime/manga/anything by how unique or convention-breaking it is. I'm not saying I never enjoy things that are--I probably do most of the time--but it's not what I look at when I fall in love with a series. For me, Bleach is so fantastic because of the wonderfully-written characters (there are an ungodly amount and I love them all and it breaks my brain) and because after I caught up, every new chapter managed to still absolutely captivate me. Recently, it's been impossible for me to get to the end of a new Bleach chapter without feeling some sort of glee.

Plus, Bleach has the greatest collective body of female characters in any series I've come across and they just keep on coming. In fact, the most recent chapter somehow managed to take a minor-minor character and make me adore her and icon her when only three pages of the chapter concentrated on her.

(Really, I just want to share the enjoyment of everything I love with people on LJ. Because it's so much more fun that way.)

[riddering.livejournal.com]

Kakashi looks naked without his mask on.

Kakashi looks good naked.

By the way, you should know by now that it's impossible for me to ignore a comment/reply/post to me that's more than a paragraph long. ;) I just can't NOT want to comment back.

I will store this information later. For innocent purposes, of course.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Kakashi looks naked without his mask on.

Kakashi looks good naked.

I just downloaded episode 135 and 136, and it's gonna be weird seeing him with his mask on after two weeks of making & staring at the maskless icon Kakashi.

[helga-b.livejournal.com]

27 Chobits (2002) ... this one just insulted me as a human being.

I never watched this, but I read some of the manga, and felt the same way. Then I tried to repress the memory of it.

106 Bleach ...quite after two episodes. Recycled Ranma 1/2 hijinks and a YYH copycat plot that's a waste of my time.

So I'm not alone in not liking Bleach? I didn't quit because of "seen-it-before" but because I just couldn't deal with the main character and his Mad Super Skillz O'Doom.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I watched about 3ish episodes (can't really remember) of Chobits because a friend liked it, and all throughout I kept asking her "But doesn't this bother you?" and "How can you think this is cute?" and "Why aren't there any male robots? Don't you find this degrading?" and "If she's not a sex toy then what does she do, serve tea?"

She couldn't really understand why it bothered me so much. I don't see how any person, any female person especially, could watch it and NOT be bothered intensely.

because I just couldn't deal with the main character and his Mad Super Skillz O'Doom.

That was one of the aspects of it that I felt I'd already seen enough of in other shows.

[teleute12.livejournal.com]

(You can restrict yourself to just people on LJ? I'm impressed; I go after anyone who shows any kind of vauge interest.)