Anyone here like Anime? (Japanese Animation/cartoons)

[White Israelite]

Wondering if anyone else is into Anime or if I'm the only one?

I'm into more serious type of Anime though I do like humour as well.

Outlaw Star
Basically about bounty hunters in space, it is pretty interesting but older.


Cowboy Bebop
Also about bounty hunters in space, better than outlaw star


Gantz
This is a strange series. Basically a game you have to play if you have died in a alternate reality of earth. Very very gorey and violent.


Planetes
Rather unknown anime but very realistic and serious about traveling to space in the future, it is about the problem of space debris and corporations and overall life in the future of 2075.


Berserk
Medieval anime, basically lots of blood and overall good series though it was never completed


Jin-Roh
Not a series but a movie, about post world war II in a alternate reality where the AXIS won the war and Japan is reforming it's economy and government like the nazis, huge protests and revolts. Very good movie.


Platonic Chain
A strange unlicensed anime not available in the US. The shows are only about 5 minutes long and it mainly is about cell phone technology/social networking. Interesting but weird.


Stratos 4
Unlicensed anime not available in the US. It is about some girls who are part of NASA or something and they fix problems in space. I have not watched the whole series but it has good drawings


Yukikaze
A more serious series, it has very good dogfights. The series is about some aliens who found a warp into Earth via a cloud from their home planet over Antartica. The government trys to keep it a secret and builds airbases there working on new planes from captured alien technology. I recommend this if you are into anime with lots of pretty explosions and dogfights. Sketchy but realistic drawings.


Macross Zero
Unlicensed anime not found in the US. This is a special edition OVA of 5 episodes, very good dogfights and deals with planes that turn into some kind of mech. It is involved with alien technology and is drawn very well. Uses a lot of CG.


FLAG
Unlicensed and not found in the US. A new anime series that is being aired in Japan, it is about a conflict in Tibet and UN troops are trying to calm the situation. The story covers from the background of someone doing documentarys. The whole series is done as you are looking through a photographers camera, it is a very unique style and a good series so far everything is drawn very very realistic. Doubtful it will ever be licensed in the US.


Grave of the fireflies
It is a story about a boy and his sister during World War II, they are caught in firebombings from US planes and try to survive. It is a sad movie and highly recommended. An older movie but drawn to even meet most of todays standards.


Gun slinger girl
This is a great anime for airsoft fans. The animation is superb and the guns are drawn very realisticly down to the trademarks. The story takes place in Rome and has a pretty serious approach to the series. Recommended


Zipang
Unlicensed anime not available in the US. It is about a modern advanced Japanese navy ship accidently going back in time after a storm to world war II Japan. This is during the midway battle and they cannot choose a side because they do not want to alter history. They fear Japan could use the technology to their advantage and change history of World War II. A very interesting series and recommended.


now and then here and there
An anime regarding a young boy who meets a strange girl in his town. Some strange people freeze time and take the girl back but the boy is taken as well on accident to a nearly deserted and dyeing earth as the sun is in a red giant stage, perhaps a billion years into the future. There is a war being fought while a "hitler" type of leader is trying to take over the world, he trains children to fight in his army and pillages citys. A very depressing and emotional anime though highly recommended.


The Cockpit
Follows the AXIS side of World War II, not a very common anime and hard to find. It's a short 3 episode series following a Nazi pilot and Japanese kamikaze pilots.


Bartender
A new strange unlicensed anime only available in Japan. So far i've seen 1 episode and it seems interesting, it's about a bartender who apparently helps people get through life or something like that. Different and interesting.



Monster
Unlicensed anime, it is a medical anime following a murder mystery. It follows a surgeon as the main character and gets stuck in the politics of a hospital, he thinks he is doing the right thing saving a boys life when he is supposed to operate on a high politician instead and ends up screwing up his career, turns out the person he saved is someone that was better off dead. Really good series.


mighty space miners
Older anime, a crew of people have a base on a comet or meteor and they are refineing resources. It's quite realistic unfortunately the company never made more than 2 episodes so it leaves you with a cliffhanger ending right
when the good stuffs about to happen.


Cat Soup
Very strange anime, it looks like hello kitty on lots of drugs, kind of violent, disgusting and demented. My guess is you would have to be on a lot of drugs to understand the demented humour

[Kiwi]

Nope, it encourges the same warrior ideas that Hitler found attractive.

That is one country I would love to see clearly wiped off the map and all their freaky people.

Another society that enjoys having sex with schoolgirls.

[mord]

But the artwork is pretty good

[White Israelite]

Nope, it encourges the same warrior ideas that Hitler found attractive.

That is one country I would love to see clearly wiped off the map and all their freaky people.

Another society that enjoys having sex with schoolgirls.

What? Japan saved many Jews. They were one of the few countries that did not enforce the policies of Nazi Germany.

And what about warrior ideaology? Weren't the Jews warriors? What about King David?

[Kiwi]

Nope, it encourages the same warrior ideas that Hitler found attractive.

That is one country I would love to see clearly wiped off the map and all their freaky people.

Another society that enjoys having sex with schoolgirls.

What? Japan saved many Jews. They were one of the few countries that did not enforce the policies of Nazi Germany.

And what about warrior ideaology? Weren't the Jews warriors? What about King David?

Japan and the Muslims both made a alliance with Hitler over the war in Russia. Where they would split the world between them. The US was brought in the war with the bombing of Peril Harbour, at the same time was the attack on Madagascar, which control the shipping routes to the south. Japan was to take Australia. Jap forces took 22,000 diggers to their deaths. The Japs kill Christan and Jew without even blinking an eye.
They also continued medical experiments that Hitler had requested.

Now the culture is underage sex, child porn, child labour, drugs. Underworld figures control the major networks and businesses, its a gates of hell.

And dropping the bombs on it to end the war was the only way to deal with the rats that infest the country.

Only regret they didn't do it sooner. And didn't finish the job.

If you think the japs were being helpful and kind think again.

They once had honor and worth, but that was more than 500 years ago.

Jews are honorable, Japs are scum.

[cjd]

Nope, it encourges the same warrior ideas that Hitler found attractive.

That is one country I would love to see clearly wiped off the map and all their freaky people.

Another society that enjoys having sex with schoolgirls.

I could not have said it better myself. Except the schoolgirl thing is something I never heard before. They were however extremely brutal to the people they in slaved. I could see them abusing children during that time.

[Kiwi]

Japan how peace loving and wonderful we are  BTW the Russians used where RUSSIAN JEWS, but glad to see them helping  Allies they mean ANZAC's which many were Jews.

Unit 731
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 
Body disposal at Unit 731Unit 731 was a covert biological warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and World War II. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japanese personnel. Officially known by the Imperial Japanese Army as the Kempeitai Political Department and Epidemic Prevention Research Laboratory, it was initially set up as a political and ideological section of the Kempeitai military police of pre-Pacific War Japan. It was meant to counter the ideological or political influence of enemies, and to reinforce the ideology of military units.

The unit was disguised as a water purification unit and was based in the Pingfang district of the northeast Chinese city of Harbin, part of the puppet state of Manchukuo. It worked through Japanese political propaganda and as an ideological representative of the Imperial Japanese Army's Kodoha (Imperial way faction, or war party). In the first phase, this section worked against communist propaganda, but extended its responsibilities in other directions, at home and overseas.

It became a rough equivalent to the German Nazi SS propaganda departments. It promoted the belief in Japanese racial superiority, racialist theories, counterespionage, intelligence, political sabotage and infiltration of enemy lines. It also liaised with the Manchukuo military police, the Manchu intelligence service, regular Manchu police, Manchu Residents committees, local Nationalist Manchu Parties, and the Japanese Secret Service detachment in Manchukuo. Its section in Manchukuo used some agents from White Russian, Chinese, Manchu, Mongol and other foreign backgrounds for special services, or covert actions at home and abroad.

As many as ten thousand people, both civilian and military, of Chinese, Korean, Mongolian, and Russian origin were subjects of the experimentation conducted by Unit 731. Some American and European Allied prisoners of war also died at the hands of Unit 731. In addition, the use of biological weapons researched in Unit 731's bioweapons program resulted in tens of thousands of deaths in China – possibly as many as 200,000 casualties by some estimates.

Unit 731 was one of many units used by the Japanese to research biological warfare; other units included Unit 516 (Qiqihar), Unit 543 (Hailar), Unit 773 (Songo unit), Unit 100 (Changchun), Unit 1644 (Nanjing), Unit 1855 (Beijing), Unit 8604 (Guangzhou), Unit 200 (Manchuria) and Unit 9420 (Singapore).

Many of the scientists involved in Unit 731 went on to prominent careers in politics, academia, business, and medicine. Some were arrested by Soviet forces and tried at the Khabarovsk War Crime Trials; others, who surrendered to the Americans, were granted amnesty in exchange for access to the data collected by them.

Because of their brutality, Unit 731's actions have now been declared by the United Nations to be war crimes.

[Kiwi]

just for reference this is what they (the Japs) were testing.

 Other experiments
Some prisoners were hung upside down to see how long it would take for them to choke to death.
Some prisoners had air injected into their arteries to determine the time until the onset of embolism.
Some prisoners had horse urine injected into their kidneys.
Some prisoners were deprived of food and water to determine the length of time until death.
Some prisoners were placed into high pressure chambers until death.
Some prisoners were exposed to extreme temperatures and developed frostbite to determine how long humans could survive with such an affliction, and to determine the effects of rotting and gangrene on human flesh.
Some experiments were performed to determine the relationship between temperature, burns and human survival.
Some prisoners were placed into centrifuges and spun until death.
Animal blood was injected into some prisoners and the effects of this studied.
Some prisoners had lethal doses of x-ray radiation administered.
Gas chambers tested various chemical weapons on some prisoners.
Air bubbles were injected into some prisoners' bloodstreams to simulate a stroke.
Sea water was injected into some prisoners to determine if it could be substituted for saline.

Biological warfare
Japanese scientists performed tests on prisoners centering around the plague, cholera, smallpox, botulism and other diseases.

This research led to the development of the defoliation bacilli bomb and the flea bomb used to spread the bubonic plague. Some of these bombs were designed with ceramic (porcelain) shells, an idea proposed by Ishii Shiro in 1938.

These bombs enabled Japanese soldiers to launch biological attacks, infecting agriculture, reservoirs, wells and other areas with anthrax, plague-carrying fleas, typhoid, dysentery, cholera and other deadly pathogens.

In addition to this, infected food supplies and clothing were dropped by planes into areas of China not occupied by Japanese forces.

[WestCoastJTF]

I saw Nausica and the Valley of the Winds and liked it.  I saw Jin Roh and liked it.  I saw Akira and completely did not understand it ;-)

I'm more of an old school comics guy - Silver and Bronze age Marvel, etc.

[White Israelite]

I saw Nausica and the Valley of the Winds and liked it.  I saw Jin Roh and liked it.  I saw Akira and completely did not understand it ;-)

I'm more of an old school comics guy - Silver and Bronze age Marvel, etc.

Yeah Jin-Roh was pretty deep, haven't seen Akira yet. I want to learn Japanese so I can watch all the good stuff airing in Japan.

[MasterWolf1]

I still think Tex Avery was one of the best for the time he was in.  Very creative.   Tex Avery did work for Warner Bros. and MGM in the 30s, 40s and 50s.  And brought forth the sarcasm out in the  cartoons.

And at that time Political Correctness wasn't like now.

This is a Tex Avery Cartoon,  I want you all to watch it.   He brought forth the humor in race issues and a lot of others that in todays time you would have the ACLU and other worm groups whining.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ucOfO1_ccf8

Errrrrrr the classic MGM lion 

[White Israelite]

I am a large fan of the artistic style of Japanese animation, also they seem to put so much detail into everything, the characters, small objects, cars, landscapes, etc. Nothing is really generic, it just looks good. I don't think Japanese animation is marketed the same way as American animation. Generally American animation is seen as "cartoons for kids" more than anything and don't really focus on detail. Also some of the anime has some really good storylines I enjoy. It's almost like the hollywood of Japan I guess you could say. While Japans history maybe controversial, I do enjoy the work of the people who draw Anime or produce it, I do not hold individuals responsible for what their country did so long as they themselves do not support those war crimes.

[angryChineseKahanist]

I like the pretty drawings and the drawings of pretty girls.
I only wish their king sized eyes were a bit smaller.

I find their cartoon movies very boring. But I like the fact that the cartoons are almost always fantasy. They take you away from the cold, cruel, bloody world.

[judeanoncapta]

Anime sucks.

 It's full of subliminal messages and it gives me a headache.

[Sarah]

Anime sucks.

 It's full of subliminal messages and it gives me a headache.

I agree.

[cjd]

Anime sucks.

 It's full of subliminal messages and it gives me a headache.

I agree.

I would have to agree also. Some of the subject matter seems very questionable.

[Kiwi]

I think its more than questionable, easy to influence the young and naive though pretty pictures and colours, and have female characters like school girl's is bound to bring up the ratings.

Anime porn is the one of the highest selling items, even over shadows real women.

Japans sex trade is wiping out a lot of the more classic forms.

Cartoon porn in Japan dates back to the earlist beginnings of their culture.

This cartoon craze is based on that.

[White Israelite]

I think its more than questionable, easy to influence the young and naive though pretty pictures and colours, and have female characters like school girl's is bound to bring up the ratings.

Anime porn is the one of the highest selling items, even over shadows real women.

Japans sex trade is wiping out a lot of the more classic forms.

Cartoon porn in Japan dates back to the earlist beginnings of their culture.

This cartoon craze is based on that.

Anime is not cartoon porn, there is a different designation of Anime. You are referring to Hentai which is basically animated pornography. Anime in it's self is not pornographic and the distinction should be clear.

This gives a better understanding as to what Anime is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime

Anime is just like Hollywood, there are different subjects and types of movies, some are graphic and gory, some sexual, some are very serious. The one i've been watching follows the career of a doctor "Monster" and there are no sexual overtones to it. Anime with sexual overtones is generally marked as hentai and a person purchasing the dvd in question would certainly know due to the warnings.

[Sarah]

Its better in video games.

[Kiwi]

I think its more than questionable, easy to influence the young and naive though pretty pictures and colours, and have female characters like school girl's is bound to bring up the ratings.

Anime porn is the one of the highest selling items, even over shadows real women.

Japans sex trade is wiping out a lot of the more classic forms.

Cartoon porn in Japan dates back to the earlist beginnings of their culture.

This cartoon craze is based on that.

Anime is not cartoon porn, there is a different designation of Anime. You are referring to Hentai which is basically animated pornography. Anime in it's self is not pornographic and the distinction should be clear.

This gives a better understanding as to what Anime is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime

Anime is just like Hollywood, there are different subjects and types of movies, some are graphic and gory, some sexual, some are very serious. The one i've been watching follows the career of a doctor "Monster" and there are no sexual overtones to it. Anime with sexual overtones is generally marked as hentai and a person purchasing the dvd in question would certainly know due to the warnings.

Its based on it, the makers are the same people. Same crap.

[Kiwi]

Cohen you wouldn't by any chance be PILMAN? on Israel Militray net?

[White Israelite]

Cohen you wouldn't by any chance be PILMAN? on Israel Militray net?

Yes I am PILMAN.

I am a bit confused as to how watching Anime has anything to do with supporting sexual overtones. In many ways although it is made by the Japanese, how many people eat sushi? Drive a Japanese car? (Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi, etc.), how about cell phones? Tv's made in Japan? Many of our products come from Japan but we still buy them.

I watch movies or a tv show because their entertaining. It's really the same with Anime, I may watch a Anime series because it covers a topic that interests me or has a interesting storyline. Others I may not watch because it doesn't suit my interest. The problem is Anime is lumped into a category of being cartoon porn when in reality Anime is not cartoon porn. While pornography in the US may involve actors and perhaps even a storyline/script, I would never classify all movies as pornographic because of the fact pornography can be classed as "entertainment". Pornography and movies are separate just like Anime and Hentai are separate.

[Kiwi]

I thought you were just checking.

And looks like you don't have much to do with Japanese culture.

You need to know what you watch, that cartoon is not based for children, its based for young guys your age.

I suggest you research it.

I don't wish to post links to support what I say. Its not acceptable for this forum. I will link on the other tho. Tokyo no doubt will enjoy it. 

[White Israelite]

I thought you were just checking.

And looks like you don't have much to do with Japanese culture.

You need to know what you watch, that cartoon is not based for children, its based for young guys your age.

I suggest you research it.

I don't wish to post links to support what I say. Its not acceptable for this forum. I will link on the other tho. Tokyo no doubt will enjoy it. 

Yes I agree, the majority of Anime is not for children. Please PM me with information regarding your stance on this issue, thanks.

[Kiwi]

Will do