About ten years ago, I started watching anime on a local access channel that played movies like "Kiki's Delivery Service" and all the episodes of ''Video Girl Ai''. I immediately began to love these animated films and began finding more on TV. The Sci-Fi channel used to show films on Sarurday or Sunday mornings, this is where I caught "Akira" and "Vampire Hunter D" for the very first times.
But there were acouple of anime that I can't remember the names of:
The first was a story about these two groups of warrior-teens, medieval period, who had been destined to meet and defeat this demon who was trying to prevent their meeting so that they could not defeat them. Make sense? Anyway, they fought with swords and there was this one kid who used a boomerang, and maybe one of the girls was half-cat, and I think one of the guys was this big beast man. I don't know the name of it, but I really enjoyed the style of it and was trying to find it.
The other was about these two present day martial artists (rivals) who are transported to this alternate final fantasy style dimension where they become key players in a battle on opposite sides of good and evil. The heroes and villians can transform into these suits of armor and use special techniques to fight their foes. They also rode these surf/like machine-armor things to travel. It was really long, lots of episodes, but it was all in japanese, there were even japanese letters on the screenwhen they did special attacks.
Oh and I also caught a movie on the Sci fi channel a while back, live action, about this girl, some sort of warrior, she wore white maybe, and pretty much the whole movie was about her fighting this monster/guyver looking thing, maybe in a futuristic setting. For some reason I remember it looking cool. what really stuck out was the part where she took out this giant white roach thing and ate it.
Anyway, if anyone has any idea what I'm talking about and the names of these films, it would be appreciated.