Post away. It's good for discussion.
Love Hina is alright. The story concept is nice, rather sentimental regarding the promise that drives the actions (atleast the ones that doesn't get him beat up by the resident ladies) of the main character. It's comedic romance. The ending isn't really satisfactory and I haven't seen the Love Hina Again OAV, the Christmas and Spring Movies are decent. The manga is far far better though even though I don't really follow up on manga like I do with anime.
I don't mind harem series. Though majority of them are boring, often differing just in setting and simple storyline goals, and go on the ladies for hype. There's no creativity or play.
Why such a small selection? You should expand and include more series.
I'd recommend Vandread. It has great CG effects and actions sequences - with the exception of EP 2 which I think the production staff was just experimenting but they redeemed with the 4th EP (funniest one) and by making the rest of the effects smooth, a good dose of humor each episode, a shadow of philosophical themes, and some romantic drama but it's lightly played on. 26 Episodes split into two seasons. I need to buy Vol 4 of Second Stage to complete it.
For the lady audience I'd pull out Kare Kano (His & Her Circumstances). I'm rather a romantic at heart and this series really struck me. I steered away from it because of the highschool romance tags, but I was just missing out. It's really funny. Fairly deep relationship, soul searching drama. It's a slice-of-life anime but done on a different level. GAINAX did an awesome job EXCEPT...that the first 2-3min of each episode is devoted to recapping the ENTIRE series up to that point which is redundant, monotonous, and boring...and they didn't have enough money to finish the series properly. Some flaws but still nice. I need Vol 5 to complete this one.
Noir. Quite a good series under the "Girls with guns" category. It has serious themes. Good action sequences but little actual blood shed. It's more of body count instead of blood. Despite having an all female cast of main characters there is little to no fanservice. The story is solid though and I give it major props for its execution.
And maybe Serial Experiment Lain. An anime on it's own level. It's an amazingly bizzare psycho-techno thrill ride. Enough said. Just...woah.
Outlaw Star. Nostaglia...and the ending theme songs...animation wise its here and there but good. The song Melfina sings half way through the series...beautiful. A simple tune...but so soothing...atleast that's how it got me.
I brought up Noein earlier. It's good, not great. Good basic storyline but it progresses slow. The visual effects are nice yet it doesn't really capture your attention, only makes you curious. Haruka's character is loveable.
I noticed a couple people liked Digimon Tamers. Major props. Downside? Yea...no DVDs for the series. Damn. I had to watch it all on Youtube.
Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 lost the vote by a large margin. Love Hina and Planetes were very close, but Planetes won by an 11 point margin. (Voting was done by giving each show 1-10.) I really would have preferred Love Hina. :-\ But with Hare Guu and Genshiken, maybe we already have enough craziness in the schedule.
Genshiken seems like it'll be amusing; it'll be an anime club watching an anime about an anime club.
As a suggestion I wanted to add...actually this is more of a strong recommendation over the others.
Add Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem on your list. It's a feature-lengthened animated film played to the Daft Punk album Discovery. Basically it's an animated musical-film, with no dialogue and little background sound effects, yet it's an amazing movie. Anime electronica. If you like the band, you'll love this film. The storyline plays directly into each song very well and there are some sequences that, I'll admit, may get you choked up so make sure to ready your "There's something in my eye" excuses. If you haven't seen it already, watch it.
I remember seeing the first part of it played on Toonami so many years ago. Too bad they didn't play all of it. It was great from what I saw then unfortunately I forgot about it until a few days ago when I heard Kanye West's remix of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger entitled Stronger (A great song) for his new album coming out in about a week. I looked Daft Punk up and remembered the movie segments then found the entire video on google and saw it.
I'm probably still buzzed over the movie hence the post but I can safely say it's a high-ranking personal favorite. Now all I got to do is buy it.
Boring slice of life with mediocre art
Have you seen all of Planetes? o_o It steps up the action about 2/3 of the way through.
I liked it. The first half was a nice change of pace from other anime, and the second half had interesting themes. I especially liked how they didn't portray either of the opposing groups as absolutely right or absolutely wrong. If our technology were to reach the point it is in the show, I would imagine it would be much like the world of Planetes.
I'd rate Planetes an 8.3/10 on my scale.
Boring slice of life with mediocre art
Have you seen all of Planetes? o_o It steps up the action about 2/3 of the way through.
I liked it. The first half was a nice change of pace from other anime, and the second half had interesting themes. I especially liked how they didn't portray either of the opposing groups as absolutely right or absolutely wrong. If our technology were to reach the point it is in the show, I would imagine it would be much like the world of Planetes.
I'd rate Planetes an 8.3/10 on my scale.
Well, no, I stopped at episode 12-ish. But the art really turned me off to begin with, and it was plodding, absolutely plodding. 12 was a good gauge, I thought. I had to beg my fangirl of a then-club president to stop showing it to us weekly. Thank god I had the backing of most of my clubmates.
To each his own, I guess. I gave it an AniDB rating of 4. 
Hare Guu: Insanity and randomness. It makes Dragon Half look completely sane. That's the only way to describe it. I think the ending felt kinda tacked on, but I guess they had to resolve that issue. Still, I don't like it when comedies go serious.
The beginning and end, although not bad, were definitely less funny than the middle, which was great.
All in all, it was quite funny. 8.2/10
Oh, and due to scheduling conflicts, Noein will be replaced with Kino's Journey
my favourite is dragon ball, dragon ball Z and GT
100 Stories aka Requiem from the Darkness:
Suitable for a Halloween marathon. I found it generally quite boring, with almost every episode having pretty much the same format, and the final episodes were nothing special either. It wasn't completely boring - following the stories and working out what's going on was barely interesting enough to save it from being a failure. 7.0/10
Yay, good to see this board is still alive and well!
Been a while since I posted, and in that time I've watched (or re-watched, as the case may be) a bunch of anime that I've gotta give my two cents on. Hopefully I won't give away anything... but I know I can get carried away, so I'll spoiler-em-up
Robotech Trilogy (Macross, Masters and New Generation):
I caan't believe how old this series is. The Macross series at least, made way back in '85. I remember seeing a few episodes when I was little and just recently recalled what the name was. Even with the miserable quality of the "animation", it was a great series. Alien spaceship crashlands on earth, earth rebuilds it... aliens return to get it back. Such an awesome plot, and I couldn't get enough of the love triangle between Rick, Lisa and Minmei. The Masters was an utter joke. It was the worst 26 episode series that I've ever seen. None of the characters were likable, the plot was lame and the picture was even worse than that of Macross. So much more could have been done with it. New Generation was much better. Solid animation, likable characters for the most part, and a storyline that was actually related to the Macross series.
I'd give Macross an 8/10, Masters a 1.5/10 and NG a 7.5/10. Overall... 7/10 for the whole thing. If you can get by the lousy picture quality, it's a solid series.
Darkside Blues:
Huge blown potential on this one. This movie would have been much better suited for a series. Dark, serious plot... interesting characters and a storyline that had some energy to it. Very Vampire Hunter D-ish (same guys made it, so that makes sense). I was getting all excited once the plot got going, wondering what was going to happen, and then BLAM! Nothing. It just ends, midstory. No closure, no progress made at all... like a single battle in a long war, where there was no clear cut winner at the end of the battle. It wasn't even a cliffhanger ending. It just stopped. That really hurt it for me. 3/10
Guardian of Darkness:
This was an ok OVA. Nothing really blew me away about it... it was just typical stereotypes for the most part. Enemy comes back after X amount of years to destroy the earth, chosen ones must stop 'em to save the planet. Average plot, average characters... etc etc. I liked the ending though, so I'd say it's worth a rental. 6/10
Bleach- Memories of Nobody:
YES! I waited months and months for this to be subbed on DVD... and it was worth the wait! First off, it was the best subbing I've ever seen, Dattebayo quality, if not better (I dunno who subbed it, so maybe it was Dattebayo). Anyone who's watched Bleach knows what to expect. Although I do give one warning, do not watch this if you haven't seen through the entirety of the Soul Society arc of the series. Watching this beforehand will probably spoil parts of the series, and you'll miss some major plot points in the movie. Loved it. This deserves a 10/10... and that's what I'm giving it!
Oh, and Death Note currently running on Adult Swim... is seriously messed up. It's awesome though, nonetheless. I can't stand the once a week thing though, driving me nuts already.
I really liked the first dozen or so episodes of Death Note. However, it just went downhill for me sometime after that and I stopped watching it. =x
I remember watching Macross a while ago, but I don't remember much of it.
All I remember is that I did like it at the time. I also agree that the Bleach movie was done really well. While the plot wasn't *great* it wasn't a disappointment. =)
Kino's Journey: I am so glad of the scheduling conflicts that led to this being shown instead of Noein. Kino's Journey is an absolute gem. It's very philosophical and thought-provoking, and it does so *very* well, with perfectly timed moments of revelation that leave you with your mouth hanging open. It's also loaded to the brim with irony. Hermes the talking motorcycle allows Kino to travel alone, as she must to fit with her character, yet have someone to talk to and express her thoughts.
I found it interesting that Kino's gun is called a Persuader. Unless I'm mistaken, that's making a statement about how force can be used to "persuade" someone.
After the first several episodes, I thought that this anime was a social commentary on the world today. I thought that it was being much too harsh on humanity. But then I realized that even though our society .may not always be like those depicted, the traits responsible for the behavior of the society in the anime are very present in the real world.
If you like philosophy, you have to watch Kino's Journey. If you don't, you should still watch it.
It's a masterpiece. It's not perfect; one thing that comes to mind is that I found the last episode rather cliche. But it's one of the best animes I've seen. I'm even rating it higher than GitS:SAC because of the afore-mentioned moments of revelation, supreme sense of irony, and for being the best "philosophy anime" I've seen and for never being boring.
I haven't completely decided on the numerical rating yet, but for now I give it a 9.5/10.
Edit: I guess I should give a brief introduction about the show. Kino travels from country to country (although what the anime calls countries are really more like cities) with her talking motorcycle, Hermes. They always stay in each country for 3 days; no more and no less, no matter what. She's a pretty good shot with her Persuader (a pistol) and she finds herself needing it all too often. Each country she visits has a distinct custom, technology, or outlook on human nature or morality that will cause the viewer to reflect on the societies of the real world.
Also, what's up with anime prices? You can get a complete Kino's Journey for $34.99, but if you buy the 4 volumes individually, they cost $26.99 each for a total of $107.96. That's *3* times more; the individual volumes cost nearly as much as the complete set. That's just an example, this seems to be the case for all anime.
Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14