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Originally posted by Melusine:
I usually dislike (and that's putting it very mildly) the sort of anime tripe that little teenage fanboys get off on,
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Eh? [img]graemlins/stunned.gif[/img] Please specify.
Know that Pokemon, Digimon and such shouldn't be counted as Anime.
I would really like it if you, and of course other people, would see Anime in it's true glory. The TV series Evangelion(Symbolism, Christianism, philosophy, in-depthness), Cowboy Bebop(Action, jazz, comedy, sci-fi), Trigun(Action, comedy, drama, post-apocalyptic) and Hellsing(Thriller, horror) come to mind. Almost all movies by genius Hayao Miyazaki are worth seeing. Ranma 1/2 is great for some laughs. And of course martial arts/fantasy anime for those who prefer it, namely Rurouni Kenshin, Inuyasha and such.
In case of Evangelion(26 episodes + 2 movies) and Trigun(26 episodes), make sure you watch all of it. In fact, the very first episodes of Trigun seemed like BS to me. Episode after episode, the show went more and more good. In the end, it was brilliant.
I much prefer subtitled Japanese Anime to dubtitled English, because dubtitled versions mostly do something wrong - especially in comedy, extra-especially when dubbing a schoolgirl's voice to English.
In my opinion, Anime is a beautiful, but hidden, category. The originality and perfection it holds is something I prefer to western television. There are exceptions, of course, but few
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