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Postby jon_jinn » Sun Jul 30, 2006 3:20 pm

well, i'm trying to find another anime i might try out after i finish Yu Yu Hakusho. i have a list of animes that i'm interested in and i'd gladly take your suggestions. the main reason i posted this thread is for you guys to suggest which anime, out of the list i have made, should i try next.
here's the list of animes i'm considering right now:

samurai champloo
samurai deeper
trigun
yakitate japan!
black cat
bleach
prince of tennis
slam dunk
eyeshield 21
hunter x hunter
hajime no ippo
flame of recca
GTO
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Postby Authority3000 » Sun Jul 30, 2006 3:36 pm

TriGun is a must watch, I'd highly recommend viewing it next. The only legitimate objections I head of it from its critics were of the animation (which was accused of being somewhat crude and recycled) and the allegedly to-thin line between slapstick comedy and dark drama.


Bleach is quite good also.
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Postby Sami_jane » Sun Jul 30, 2006 5:15 pm

My first recommendation would be to watch Trigun. It has almost no killing in it, its a great commedy at times and it has a really good storyline to go with it. there are even parts in the anime that show christian point of veiws. its a great anime altogather. im currently watching the prince of tennis on toonami jetstream so if you wanted you could watch taht one now really. personally i like it. it has been a pretty good show. granted i have only see a few episodes. bleach is coming out pretty soon on AS and i havent seen it but i have heard its pretty good. As for samarai champloo...be warned its has a lot of cussing,sexual inuendos,some "almost" nudity, and an episode compleatly dedicated to gays. if you can get past all of that its actually got a good story line and is a well put togather show in my opinion.
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Postby jon_jinn » Sun Jul 30, 2006 6:04 pm

Sami_jane wrote:My first recommendation would be to watch Trigun. It has almost no killing in it, its a great commedy at times and it has a really good storyline to go with it. there are even parts in the anime that show christian point of veiws. its a great anime altogather. im currently watching the prince of tennis on toonami jetstream so if you wanted you could watch taht one now really. personally i like it. it has been a pretty good show. granted i have only see a few episodes. bleach is coming out pretty soon on AS and i havent seen it but i have heard its pretty good. As for samarai champloo...be warned its has a lot of cussing,sexual inuendos,some "almost" nudity, and an episode compleatly dedicated to gays. if you can get past all of that its actually got a good story line and is a well put togather show in my opinion.


well, i watched the first episode of samurai champloo in subtitles and it had a LOT of swearing. in one episode there was probably over twenty swear words. half of them being s-words and f-words. i take it, the english version is toned down at least a little bit.
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- Mark Driscoll

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- Martin Luther

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Postby uc pseudonym » Mon Jul 31, 2006 9:41 am

It is, as most of those curse words were more or less added by the subbers. I also feel the dub has much better dialogue. As for your other titles...

If you liked Yu Yu Hakusho, Hunter x Hunter has many of the same qualities. It would be a solid choice, though I warn you it isn't likely to be finished any time soon (in manga, anyway, I cannot speak of how far they took the anime).

Trigun is a classic, but other people have already spoken to it. Bleach is a solid shonen title that I would also recommend.
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Postby Radical Dreamer » Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:11 am

I second (fourth?) Trigun. One of my top 15 favorite series; it's certainly worth your time. :D As for the rest, I've never seen any of them, though I have heard that Black Cat is quite good, and I'm looking to watch that one myself someday. XD Good luck finding a title you enjoy! :thumb:
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Postby mitsuki lover » Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:53 am

Trigun is good in both the dub and sub forms.I don't know about the Samurai Champloo sub as I haven't seen it subbed yet so can't vouch for the swearing in it,though in the dub it's rather mild although the AS version makes it seem worse than it is.As far as sexuality goes,the only really questionable episode is the one
with the gay Dutchman in it.
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Postby uc pseudonym » Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:32 pm

mitsuki lover wrote:As far as sexuality goes,the only really questionable episode is the one with the gay Dutchman in it.

That would depend on what you view as questionable, sexually. There are a few other homosexuality references, a great number of sexual situations, and frequent "nudity" (where someone isn't wearing anything but there are conveniently placed objects). Instead of going over it in to much detail, I'll just link to CAA's review:
http://www.christiananime.net/reviews.php?display=170
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Postby Sami_jane » Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:24 pm

i believe there was also an episode where a guy was in the pond with jin and was hitting on him. but anyways as for the cuss words there are still alot in the dubbed version but a lot of them get bleeped out with the sound of a record player benig pushed back and forht. (lol did that even make sence? its hard to explain i cant think of the word for it so taht is what you get :p )
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Postby CDLviking » Wed Aug 02, 2006 2:36 pm

From your list I will join everyone else in recomending Trigun. You can skip Samurai Deeper Kyo though (trash). If you like Trigun, I'll also recomend Rurouni Kenshin. It's like they took Vash and moved him to meiji Japan (though I think Kenshin actually came first).

Depending on your tastes I recomend Now and Then, Here and There. It's a bit intense for some, so you may want to check the review to see if it's something you'd be interested (most of your titles seem to be of a more lighthearted nature). Almost anything be Akitaro Daichi (director) is worthy of a viewing.
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Postby jon_jinn » Sun Aug 06, 2006 7:56 pm

yeah. well, i'd like to add two other animes that i've heard of but forgot to post up on the list. they are:
Fate/Stay Night
Utawaremono
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"In the total expanse of the human life, there is not a single square inch of which Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine'."
- Abraham Kuyper

"God the great Creator of all things doth uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things, from the greatest even to the least, by His most wise and holy providence, according to His infallible foreknowledge and the free and immutable counsel of His own will, to the praise of the glory of His wisdom, power, justice, goodness, and mercy."
- Westminister Confession of Faith (Chapter 5, Section 1)

"The wisdom of God has found a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God all the while upholding the righteousness of God!!"
- John Piper

"Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God!"
-John Piper

"The very One from Whom we need to be saved, is the One Who has saved us."
- R.C. Sproul

"All of Christian life is ceaseless worship of God the Father, through the mediatorship of God the Son, by the indwelling power of God the Spirit, doing what God commands in Scripture, not doing what God forbids in Scripture, in culturally contextualized ways, for the furtherance of the Gospel, when both gathered for adoration, and scattered for action, in joyous response to God's glorious grace."
- Mark Driscoll

"Believers do not pray with the view of informing God about things unknown to Him, or of exciting Him to do His duty, or of urging Him as though He were reluctant. On the contrary, they pray in order that they may arouse themselves to seek Him, that they may exercise their faith in meditating on His promises, that they may relieve themselves from their anxieties by pouring them into His bosom; in a word, that they may declare that from Him alone they hope and expect, both for themselves and for others, all good things."
- Martin Luther

"I have to tell you first that I am ready to die. I have put my affairs in order. Your supreme weapon is killing. My supreme weapon is dying, because when you kill me, people all over Romania will read my books and believe on the God that I preach - even more than they do now."
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Postby Radical Dreamer » Sun Aug 06, 2006 8:02 pm

jon_jinn wrote:yeah. well, i'd like to add two other animes that i've heard of but forgot to post up on the list. they are:
Fate/Stay Night
Utawaremono


U~ta~wa~re~! Utaware's definitely a good anime, but there's some fanservice...One of the female characters practically screams "fanservicey," haha. I would reccommend it if you think you can handle that, but it's just been licensed by ADV, and will be released in early '07 under the name "Shadow Warrior Chronicles" (which is weird, since it doesn't translate at all...but that's another topic for another thread. XD). Still, I hesitate to recommend it to you because of the fanservice, even though the instances are pretty sporadic. Good anime, though. :)
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