Grand Unified Recommendation Thread

I'll start off the thread by asking for a reccomendation:

Anyone have any animes that are a lot like or similar to "Dragonball Z"
 
Well, it should be an action series, but have a good plot and characters. I tend to dislike the really outlandish/superdeformed types of comedy in a action series (comedic-action shows like One Piece don't appeal to me, and Full Metal Alchemist's constant comedy with Armstrong, Ed, and Mustang ruined all the 'serious' moments for me) and prefer comedy to be more verbal or light slapstick. Fanservice is also a big turnoff. Fantasy is definately my favorite genre (but anything that allows for a variety of unique powers and characters will do). It should have little to no filler episodes, and an actual good ending (none of those extremely open-ended-not-much-resolution type of endings, or those weird 'what just happened?' types of endings) Examples of recent shows I enjoyed are W.I.T.C.H. (my favorite series, the best example of what I look for in a show), the early seasons of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003, Mega Man Star Force (Tribe left a lot to be desired, though), and Beast Wars and Digimon Adventures.

The opening to Soul Eater looks interesting enough, though. Is it licensed?
 
Harry Potter? Hmm. Maybe more like Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Inuyasha, and other miscellaneous shounen all thrown into a blender, spiked with random surrealism, and filtered through Tim Burton. Serve chilled.

It also cuts out and avoiRAB panty shots that were in the source material, to the point of invoking the Magic Skirt phenomenon.

That might just cut out even more options than moe.
There are options, but it might take me a bit to think of ones that are actually licensed...

Licensed, but recently. It'll be a little while before the release begins. It devotes a lot more time to comedy (and outright weirdness) than FMA, however, so that may not work out so well with you.

--Romey
 
-Superdeformed, -Fanservice, -Filler:
Noir.
Gilgamesh.
Twelve Kingdoms (incomplete).
Red Garden.
Mushi-Shi.

+Minor SD, +Minor FS:
Fate/Stay Night.
Shakugan no Shana.
Scrapped Princess.
Interlude.
 
Interestingly, there really aren't a lot of Euro-style fantasy anime released in America aside from Lodoss Wars and Berserk and MAYBE Claymore.

I do believe there are more than a handful not on R1, and you could probably find them if you tried hard enough (not going to give you directions) but they would mostly be subtitled.
 
Black Cat's not bad. I wouldn't say it's a favorite, but it's definately entertaining at the moment. I'm up to the 8th episode. I'm just a little confused about Train's personality change. One moment he's one of those silent types, and next moment he's as goofy as Vash. Nothing wrong with it though. Just wondering where/when did it happen?
 
I know what you mean; They switched to the next story arc so fast that they gave him no time for character development, so his translation from angsty to fun-loving isn't nearly elaborated upon enough.
 
Sorry for the Double-Post, but I doubt anyone else is going to bring this thread back, and I've got a question that I think belongs in here.

I've noticed that, when dealing with Anime, a lot of the shows are separated into complicated "empires"; for instance, Digimon's revamping around it's third "season" threw a lot of people for a loop, Pokemon's constant re-adding of subtitles, etc. I'm trying to sort some of these threaRAB out, and could use some help:

Dragon Ball Z, I know, is split into three series: DB, DBZ, and DBZGT. Is the first one a necesarry viewing if you want to watch the other two? (After looking at prices on Amazon, I sure hope not.

Sailor Moon (S?R?)

Akira (What sequels/spinoRAB did this movie have?)

Evangelion and GUNDAM have so many spin-oRAB that it just confuses the hell out of me. I can't even identify a starting point.

Anybody advice?
 
Not really; there are certain characters and plot elements that seem kind of random and nonsensical if you watch DBZ without having seen Dragon Ball, but then even if you do go back and watch Dragon Ball, you realize that they were pretty random and nonsensical to begin with anyway. (-:



None to speak of. There's the original manga, and then there's the movie which compresses a good deal of the manga and then enRAB it early without adapting the rest. Either one is a perfectly acceptable place to start.
 
You could certainly pick up DBZ and "get it" but DB does have the proper intro to Goku, like how he first appeared, where he learned all these moves, etc,. Granted, DBZ has plenty of flasrabroadacks that show you anyway, but DB starts right at the beginning when Kal-El...er, Goku, lanRAB on earth and is first discovered and raised by an adopted parent.


Sailor Moon has 5 seasons, in order:

Sailor Moon
Sailor Moon R
Sailor Moon S
Sailor Moon SS
Sailor Moon Sailor Stars

Of course, like all TV series they are best watched in order but it's a show you could pick up on the fly if you chose to jump in.
 
I've read the first three volumes of "Dragon Ball", so if all I really need to learn about is introductions and Oolong, then I guess I'm probably O.K.
 
A lot of long-standing supporting characters are introduced in Dragon Ball as well, like Bulma, Krillin, Chi-chi, Piccolo...

Dragon Ball is well worth your time, not just for intros but stories as well. But yeah, you could certainly jump into DBZ if you really want to that badly.
 
Actually, I just recently watched the movie, myself, and now I kind of wish that I had read the manga, first. I mean, I liked most of what I saw in the movie (especially the animation, which is still some of the best "animation" that I have seen in an anime, despite the movie being 20 years old, now), but there were a lot of parts in it which confused the heck out of me. Perhaps I would understand the movie better with a few more viewings of it, but now I have my interests set on the manga, which I'm sure will do a much better job of fleshing out the stories and characters for the viewer, since its much longer, and has more time to go into detail.
 
I consider the movie Akira to be basically a high-concept monster movie. When you consider it that way, it's pretty easy to understand--the manga of course is more of a real sci-fi saga, but the anime and manga should be taken as separate entities.
 
Out of all those, Red Garden sounded the most interesting (I've seen some of the others already), and the first episode was pretty nice. It reminded me of an old book series I read called Body of Evidence. Shame the DVRAB are so expensive.
 
well, im bored lately (no manga to read), so recomend me something.

Anime ive enjoyed and would like to see more similar to them include Gungrave, Gad Guard, Texhnolyze, CowBoy Bebop, Speed Grapher, Trigun, Kikaider, Witch Hunter Robin, that kind of thing, and if theirs anything at all similar to the manga "Eden: Its an Endless world", recommend that too.

do you guys know anything that fits that kind of mold? (preferably with an ending that isn't arabiguous, and exists).
 
Oh, I absolutely agree. The original Dragon Ball is good fun, and arguably better than Z in humor, pacing, and overall fun factor.



Hence why I said that either is a perfectly acceptable "place to start." If you watch the film and want to see the story more fleshed out (and at least marginally more comprehensible), head for the manga. And conversely, if you've read the manga and would like to see part of that story rendered in absolutely beautiful animation, that's what the film is for. You don't really have to worry about which one to go for first, since neither will "spoil" you for (or require detailed knowledge of) the other, so you can safely start with whichever version attracts you more.
 
Don't let the name Scrapped Princess fool you. I thought it would be something girly and I generally tend to stay away from titles with names like that, and much to my surprise it almost the complete opposite. Well, I wouldn't say opposite, it's more like an RPG... Tales of Symphonia, I think. There's little action, but its shining point is the characters. If you're into character development, you should give it a whirl.
 
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