I have recently gotten reinterested in Anime. I used to be heavy into sci fi but lost interest when it all started getting stupid back in the late 90’s.
However lately due to wider access to older sci fi stuff that was unavailable in the US till recently and some new offerings I am rediscovering the genre.
That got me wondering if anyone else here was also into the genre. If so let me know I’d like to exchange recommendations.
If not nevermind I was just curious.
Yes. Yes, and yes.
Not train stuff though so I’ll PM you.
T
Sorry, i didn’t realize this was in the Other Hobby forum. I answered you in PM though.
I love anime though. mostly the stuff with mechs. Robotech and the like. One I didn’t mention was Attack on Titan,it’s very cool, although I have only watched part 1. I don’t care for the Horror Animae and the ones that turn into soft core porn turn me off too. I have a couple others to mention but their names escape atm.
T
Hi Terry I’m reposting my PM reply here
I’ve heard Sword Art Online is good (from my 16 year old grand nephew, he’s also a big Attack on Titan fan). I’m half thru one of the best anime’s I’ve seen, Space Battleship Yamato 2199, a recent remake of the 70’s series and daaaaaaaam its good! Takes all the key points of the series and adds a lot more characters, intrigue, and politics, and some fantastic animation. If any series will make me cross the line into a Bluray player and $25 disks, thats the one
Also thoroughly enjoyed the original Mobile Suit Gundam and sequel Zeta Gundam, if you liked Robotech its as good if not better, particularly Zeta Gundam.
Also highly recommend Cowboy Bebop, one of the best series ever, and Cromartie High School, hilarious show, also the classics like Akira
BTW I am also a massive fan of Hiyao Miyazaki
Heres a little taste of Yamato 2199, no spoilers as its in Japanese
It’s kind of like getting into Playmobil after being into large scale ???
I can agree with you on the sci-fi thing, Vic. Where have those standards of sci-fi like The Day The Earth Stood Still, Forbidden Planet, Plan 9 From Outer Space, just kidding on that last one. I really don’t want to hijack your thread but you’ve opened the door. One of my favorite shows, from the eighties I believe, is Mystery Science Theatre 3000. It used to be on regular channels but is only on some cable channel now, that I don’t have.
The only thing I don’t like are subtitles. If I can’t get them in english dub i usually won’t watch them.
T
Terry a lot of the better DVDs have english dubs, some better than others. My Gundam and Zeta Gundam have great dubs, however my Double Zeta Gundam has serious bad subtitles that were translated by Bablefish.
Dan some anime’s are WAY better than a lot of sci fi films, Zeta Gundam and Yamato being good examples because you can do huge vast stories and hugely complex scenes that would cost too much in film.
PS Dan, … Mike or Joel ?
Well I can whole heartily highly recommended Space Battleship Yamato 2199, the end of my series was far more sophisticated than the original series, as was really the entire series.
Trouble is its not available on Netflix. I do have lined up next on the Netflix ones that sounds pretty interesting, Zipang, about a modern Japanese warship that finds itself in 1942 and how it tries to avoid the war but still causes catastrophic time changes.
I’m kinda a fan of anime, I’m very picky though. My favorite films are Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Porco Roso, and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind all made by Hayao Miyazaki. I’m also a fan of Steamboy which is a steampunk film set in Victorian London with all sorts of steam powered machines and weapons as well as quite a bit of trains featured. I’d check it out.
Too late Caleb, already have Steamboy on DVD, also the Miyazaki films, I’ve seen all of them & have most on DVD. If you have not seen his other movies, Mononoke, Kiki, Howls, I’ve yet to see a bad one though I wasn’t the biggest fan of Ponyo or Up on Poppy Hill. But the recent The Wind Rises was great. I’ll give you one recommended film that’s one of my favorites The Cat Returns, its a small Miyazaki film but has some really wonderful bits. PS My Neighbor Totoro is my favorite anime, period. I have a Nekabasu hanging from my car mirror 
If you like the steam punk/big machine vibe kind of stuff. I recommended Howl’s Moving Castle and a series called Giant Robo The Night The Earth Stood Still.
Well I tried. lol I remember seeing My Neighbor Totoro long ago, I’ll have to see it again.
Vic, Full metal alchemist is another one I really liked. I preferred the original over the remake.
T
Vic,
Netflix has a ton of anime at the moment. I’m a fan of RWBY and Arpeggio of Blue Steel.
Best,
TJ
Vic, another question, did you watch Yamato the movie or the series?
Also, I started watching Samurai Champloo, different but good.
T
Another good one is Morobitu.
Hi Terry, my nephew recommended that along with Naruto but I haven’t gotten around to them. Anime has been on the back burner a little for the summer months, been too busy with other stuff.
Sorry I didnt answer you last question earlier. I watch Yamato 2199 as a series on dvd, which is the way to see it, many of the episode go into the characters and other things that really help flesh out the series. I just recently started watching the first episode and before I knew it I was 5 or 6 episodes in…again.
A couple movies I can recommend but the first, well its VERY different, thats “Tekkonkinkreet” which is visually absolutely stunning, also “Summer Wars” which was extremely entertaining.
Also one series I mentioned earlier which I find one of the funniest things ever is called “Cromarte High School” about the worst high school in Japan full of the worst delinquents in Japan, but it’s not what you’d think and its very very funny.
Currently I am looking to get the second Yamato 2199 dvd: “Odyssey of the Celestial Ark”
I bought yamato and didn’t realize it was the live action. I wasn’t a fan. I’m gonna look for the anime one in a dubbed version. I’ve been told that starblazers is the same thing, just the american version. Another I am watching is attack on titan.
Terry
I watched Star Blazers when I was in grade school. Good program.
Terry Burr said:
I bought yamato and didn’t realize it was the live action. I wasn’t a fan. I’m gonna look for the anime one in a dubbed version. I’ve been told that starblazers is the same thing, just the american version. Another I am watching is attack on titan.
Terry
Terry NO the live action is NOT the same as either anime beyond the barest bones, most of it is completely different from the source, don’t go by it as a basis for the rest of the series, I’m not a fan of the live action version either because it went so far off the rails and changed so much as to be worthless to any fan of the anime.
Starblazers really only westernized the names of the characters and changed the Yamato to the Argo. This was because WW2 wasn’t all that long ago in 1978 and the US distributors didn’t want to ruffle any feathers so they went with a safer western name and in the western version makes a certain sense. Otherwise the story is unchanged from the Japanese version. I saw the condensed movie version of Yamato in 1976 and then the Starblazers series in 1978 and was impressed by how much of the Japanese version it retained, this was reinforced when I finally got to see the whole Japanese series later in the 1980s. Starblazers is Yamato only with sillier cartoon character names. Otherwise still a landmark series in either language.
I highly recommend any Anime versions, but be careful with the original Japanese versions to start with the first, there are three series and I think two or three movies, all in more or less chronological order. Starblazers did the three tv series in English. But my highest recommendation is still the 2199 version.
Check them out but keep in mind that these were made by hand before computers and CGI made things like Attack on Titan so amazingly smooth and fluid.
(edit) Dam…I just realized, I saw Yamato in 1976, that’s a year BEFORE that little film from that Lucas guy was released.(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)
