Be Excellent To Each Other

I lived there for three years. I spent them all in my ivory (red-brick) tower strenuously resisting the miasma of corruption that hung about the city.

Fucking Gloucestershire shitbags coming up here eating our German food.

I think I can remember seeing:

Bubblegum Crisis (classic, Nene is teh hawt, loads of episodes)
Akira
Ghost in the Shell
Macross 2
Grappler Baki (the world's most brutal and ridiculous karate championship)
Judge (by day, nerd... by night, he punishes bad people)
Patlabor 2
Dominion Tank Police
Lupin 3: Mystery of Mamo
several Dirty Pair episodes
Wings of Honnaemise (alternate history space program... very interesting)
Burn Up
Plastic Little (mmmm, nipples)
Lensman!
Legend of Lemnear (more Satoshi Urushihara nippleage)
Vampire Hunter D

I'm sure there's loads more I've forgotten.

The best anime ever is obviously Jiburiru: The Devil Angel.

Wings of Honnaemise is awesome also.

I guess that two Dawn French jokes in one day would be a bit much.

Has no-one mentioned Urotsukidoji yet?

Or La Blue Girl? Pah. The animation in those is appalling by today's standards.

Do any of them have futuristic pew pew? Or even the more common "schoolgirls being violated by giant multi-cocked demons"? No. They have twee. So they can fuck off, and then fuck off some more.

GiTS 2 is good, GiTS3 is in my pile of 'stuff to watch', as is Appleseed 2. I am still waiting for a DVD release of Battle Angel Alita (or Gunnm), which was one of my favorites. It'll come out as soon as Mr Cameron makes it into a 'real' film (if he ever does).

Jiburiru, man.

I have indirectly. Great stuff, that.

Most disappointing one I've watched was "Blood of the Vampire", or something, which started brilliantly but turned out to be a disappointing 35 minutes long. Bastards.

Sounds like Vampire Hunter D, which is a great film.

No, I totally mean "Blood: The Last Vampire".

Actually, so did I

Heh!

It's also 85 minutes long. But it felt like 35.

It's the one where she goes "SWORD!" at the end, right?

This was, like, 10 years ago, so all I can remember is that she was at a girl's school by a US air base, and she et people.

Roujin Z. Awesome ending, that. Giant mecha grandad in electric bed FTW.

You have a lot of stuff I want to see by the sounds of it Dimmers. You should consider making off site backups of them in case of fire or pig flu. I could store them in my copied DVD wallet,.

Has anyone watched Death Note?

Roujin Z is still on VHS. I took a load of old Anime VHSss to the charity shop last week. I've fell out of love for the genre. Except for Miyazaki of course.

Liked My Neighbour Totoro, in fact when it comes to Miyazaki I've still got The Cat Returns to watch.

Other stuff I liked.

Wicked city is pretty good, though I haven't seen it in years.
Urusei Yatsura. Subbed and mostly through Youtube. Funny as hell though in places.
Patlabor. On video and really excellent.
Robotech. Another oldie but goodie, though its about 3 different series spliced together.

Incidentally, if you want a copy of both parts of the live action Death Note films from Film 4 recently, I've still got them on my HD Recorder that I can burn off or GJ has the discs already.

Good films too, though it would've been better stitched as one long film - although I think each one is about 2½ hrs so that may be why.

I would very much like them, yes please!

I've read the first 9 books (of 13). Do you know if the movies cover all of them, as whilst the first seven or so were excellent, the story is really starting to drag now. For a non-spoilery answer, just tell me if the film involves the character of Near, as he only pops up in book eight or so.

Cheers!

My memory of the second part is a bit hazy but that character doesn't ring a bell. GJ watched it more recently than me so I'm sure she'll correct me if I'm wrong - she's good at that.

Just PM me your address and I'll try and get them in the post tomorrow as I'm off then

The Cat Returns isn't Miyazaki.

For my Dimrill
http://annathered.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/how-to-make-totoro-cream-puffs/

I love this, but largely because of my specs fetish.

Otherwise, I have little idea about any post-1995 anime. Which is a shame, because I fucking loved anime and manga.

[haven'treadwholethreadyet]Is Shirow still doing stuff?[/haven'treadwholethreadyet]

Miyazaki is, like, so totally gay. I'm amazed his films don't *random battle* have *random battle* a load of *random battle* random battles in them.

Was that the dude with the massive face? Like an Easter Island judge?

No... he was dressed in traditional Oriental clothes and held a large book, if I recall. And he served the seven gods of somethingorother, who appeared behind him as menacing figures.

Pointing me in the direction of this thread might have been a good start knowing ho much I dislike anime...

I don't remember anyone with that name Curio, but I was quite tired when I watched part two. From looking at the Wiki entry, the film has a different ending to the books. Just for the record, I really enjoyed the films.

Cool. He's a young fella. There are two of them who are rivals from an Orphanage, trying to bring down the people with the Death Note. 'Near' is the more honourable of the two. The other one is called 'Mello'.

That's vague enough so as not to be spoilers.

The books are well worth a read, though #9 was a bit rubbish. I may as well buy 10-13 though, for completeness.

Definitly not the same then. The films were still very enjoyable though, hopefully devilman got them in the post to you today.

You're assuming I didn't fall asleep on the sofa... tomorrow Curio.. promise!

I hope you didn't drink that wine when you woke up.

No worries, whenever is fine.

Thank you so much for the DVDs!

I will watch them this weekend.

You're welcome.

Be sure to post your opinions on it too as I'd like to see how it fares against the source material.

Finally got around to (trying) to watch these today.

Alas, it wouldn't play on my PS2 or via the default player on the laptop. I then tried loading it via our DivX player, which also gave an error three seconds in, but I managed to skip past that. Alas, it seems to run perfectly and then just come to a juddering halt every couple of minutes. Not sure if it's a problem with the disc or with the codecs I have or something. What were you playing them on?

I used my 360, give it a try and get back to me, if no joy it might be your discs and I can always post you mine.

I shall give it a whirl shortly.

No active Anime thread, Beex? For shame.

I recently purchased the complete Lucky Star collection on DVD. I really enjoyed watching a fansubbed version years ago, and am falling in love with the series again. It may well be my favourite Anime series.



It is reminiscent of Seinfeld, in that it purports to be a show about nothing. It is winsome.

The last Anime film I watched was The Cat Returns. Pretty good, Ms Z enjoyed watching it too.

I had a minor Anime revival recently by watching the first two films in the Rebuild of Evangelion series. It's been ages since I saw the original series, so I can't really say how it compares. Who knows when parts 3 & 4 will get released though (and how long it will take before they're in a language I can actually understand).

Don't you mean manga?

*runs*

Belm off Kissyfur.

Heh.

In Mr K anime news - I got one episode into Robotech recently, and switched it off. I may try again this weekend. It's a little too old school for my liking, though.

Oh yes, I was recently trying to find out the name of an old animated film I saw yeeeeears ago and I'm sure I read somewhere that Ghibli are doing a remake while trying to find it.

Anyway, here's a clip: Nezha Conquers The Dragon King (1979)