Recommend: Anime

[The Upright Man]

yep The Cat Returns is pure magic, was on tv while back. i sat down only meanin to watch the first ten mins. hour and a half later, i was still screaming at the tele for the likle girl to escape. i got sooo absorbed into it
good ole Ghibli

[spaceseed]

I like stuff like the old Gundam and the sci-fi oriented stuff but haven't followed it for a while. I've been trying to learn about it since I have friends into it.

I found this clip on Youtube and was wondering if anyone knows anything about this. It looks cool but wanted to know more about it. I liked the song but knew nothing about the anime bit.

YouTube - Tenjho Tenge - Dirty

[Talysia]

I haven't seen any of Tenjho Tenge, so I can't really comment on it. I would definitely agree with all of the recommendations for just about anything by Ghibli/Miyazaki, though, as well as Ghost in the Shell and Cowboy Bebop. (Anyone who knows me knows that those last two won't come as a surprise.)

[Momoka]

Well, I read the Tenjo Tenge manga, and if it's anything like it expect lots of martial-arts-school versus school fighting, mystical fighting styles and large-chested girls

I recommend anything Ghibli/Miyazaki (as always), Zero no Tsukaima and Project A-ko for comedy, Eden's Bowy for fantasy/rpg-ish anime, Ayashi no Ceres and Jigoku Shoujo/ Jigoku Shoujo Futakomori for something darker, Revolutionary Girl Utena for shoujo-ai-ness and strangeness and Elfen Lied for more action/horror.

There will be a ton more, but I'm having trouble recalling them right now

[Constantine Opal]

On DVD I have:

Pom Poko
Kiki's Delivery Service
Castle in the Sky
Porco Rosso
My Neighbour Totoro
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (my absolute favourite)
Princess Mononoke
Grave of the Fireflies
Only Yesterday
The Ocean Waves
Spirited Away
Whisper of the Heart
and a couple of other DVD's all in a Studio Ghibli boxset in Japanese. Most of them have English subtitles bar the two I'm not sure of!

I also have the Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke and Nausicaa that were released dubbed in English (voices from such actors as Patrick Stewart, Clare Danes etc). I would say that anyone wanting to start of gentle should give these a try!

Other random DVD's: Akira, Macross Plus, Interstella 5555: The Story of the Secret Star System (feature length film from the animated Daft Punk videos), Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell, Blood: The Last Vampire and Vampire Hunter D.

(takes a breath)

Videos: MD Geist, Ghost in the Shell (again!), Akira (again!), Appleseed, Lensman, Fist of the North Star, The Guyver and Crying Freeman.

I also buy a magazine about Anime and Manga called Neo as and when I see it poking out of a shelf... all alone! Despite all this, I am by no means and expert and still haven't managed to pick up any Japanese!!!

All I know is, I love it and I love the animation which is, at times, breathtaking.

[Troo]

Well on the plus side picking up Japanese from Anime alone usually leaves you with stilted vocabulary such as "Neko genki wai!" and "Kawaii! Baka!"