Holy cow, I posted in this thread a over year ago and stumbled across it today. Didn't have luck finding these anime, so I'll give it another try:
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:
1. The first was a story about these two groups of warrior-teens, medieval period, who had been destined to meet and defeat this demon man, who either ressurects or turns in to this giant dragon monster in the end. 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, and maybe there was an archer too, but it was a mixture og guys and girls, 7 total. Some of them wore armor, I remember a green armor guy and maybe a blue armor guy too. I don't know the name of it, but I really enjoyed the style of it and was trying to find it.
2. The other was about these two present day martial artists (rivals) who are transported to this alternate 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. I remember there were these scenes when they did their special attacks and Japanese lettering would show of the screen. But basically all of the fighters/warriors had special abilities.
3. 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 armor 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 was taking abreak from the fight and she pulled out some food which was this giant white cockroach.
Anyway, if anyone has any idea what I'm talking about and the names of these films, it would be appreciated.