WHAT DOES RPGMAKER.NET THINK OF ANIME?

author=Liberty
I'm big on One Piece when it comes to manga (the anime, not as much lately).

There's Log Horizon, Toppa Tengen Gurren Laggan, Monster, Ouran High School Host Club and Skip Beat! which are all good anime.

author=Liberty
Fruits Basketis insanely cute, too. I like a good mix of all genres. Bar Mecha. The only Mecha anime I can handle is TTGL but that's because it's so fucking awesome I ain't even joking this anime omg if you haven't seen it go watch now it's amazing you don't know just how great it is omg tears and laughter and pain and joy and go watch that shit one of the best anime I have ever fucking seen.


Also, Scrapped Princess was pretty cool. Princess the whole world wants to kill, trying to solve the mystery of her birth and stay alive at the same time. Supported by only her brother and sister and a handful of other characters we meet along the way. The story is nice and it gets really interesting. That ending, though... hnnng~

Solty Rei is another great anime that isn't heard of much. It's about a mysterious girl found by a grieving father who is a detective. She saves his life and he takes her in grudgingly. Set in a futuristic world, it's really interesting and there's a lot of pieces that are just so great. It made me cry. But then so did Scrapped Princess, TTGL and One Piece, so... ^.^;

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"Lastly I want to talk about ecchi. Now, anime gets a bad rap for being perverted and yeah, I see where a lot of that comes from. More often than not when I do an anime round-up I’ll have at least one section about this subject because unless the story is incredibly engrossing, it’s something I notice a lot. In Solty Rei there is perversion but it’s handled a bit oddly than in usual anime. Very much so.

For one, the female half of the cast have to be the cleanest anime characters known to man. Nearly every episode had at least one shot of a woman in the shower or bath. I am not joking. Granted, all necessary bits are covered but still! Another thing is the close-ups of Solty’s butt. Good lord, did they love to show her ass off (and the asses of a few other characters who wore tight-fitting spandex). What is odd, though, is that despite the huge amount of chances for panty shots (seriously, if it’s not spandex it’s short skirts or ruffled out skirts that fly all over the place) there are none in the show. Not a one that I managed to glimpse. It was an odd contrast - the willingness to show off the female form quite a lot, but the reluctance to actually show panty shots, despite the huge amount of chances to do so. Reminds me a bit of the last anime I watched in that regard."

Also, Shangri-La is a wonderful experience with amazing characters and you should all go watch that shit. Seriously. Vengeful pink-haired guerrilla girl with her cross-dressing best buddy and other crazy cast, fighting against a mega corporation in a junked-out post-apocalyptic Japan where people are being killed by Mother Nature? Oh, and the whole 'destined one' being flipped on its head and then some? Add in an amazing cast of women - it's a fucking awesome story. I mean, it manages to cover every base - tragedy, war, comedy, ecchi (a little ;p ), sci-fi, hacking, megapowers, trading, explosions, guerrilla warfare, pretty pink girl kicking all kinds of ass, destiny, destiny not being set in stone, pretty graphics... It doesn't get enough love. Please, go watch this anime. It's 24 episodes but I legit watched in within a day because of how great it is. I couldn't stop watching. It's one of those anime where you can never guess what is going to happen next and the characters are some of the best I've seen in an anime in a very, very long time.


Oh, almost forgot Michiko to Hatchin. Escaped convict mother kidnaps the daughter of her ex-lover and they go on a road trip together, searching for the man that links them together. This anime is just so great. The animation is lovely, the main character is a sexy, bad-ass woman of colour. They constantly change clothes, for gods' sake. There's a lot of love put in to this anime. It's from the creators of Cowboy Bebop. Yeah, I bet you never heard of this anime in conjunction with that one, but honestly, it's so good.

author=Liberty
Probably because Oda takes care to craft the story not only for young readers but also for his older ones - as he said, the kids that started reading One Piece when it began are now adults (17 years of One Piece already!) and he writes as much for them as he does for those new to the series. He takes into consideration the adult audience and instead of just focussing on young readers, write to retain his audience, which is something a lot of mangaka forget about.

He also writes in a way that covers all genres and emotions in a story. You'll be smiling one moment, then crying the next (Enies Lobby fucked me up so much) and the continuity is really great. So many characters who are all so likeable and have their own motives... Someone else said it best when they said that One Piece is an adult manga written so a child could understand it.

/me hugs One Piece to chest

I'm not ashamed to admit that one of my life goals is to see the end of One Piece.


@Tago: Yeah, that's the one. Well, it's not really based in Brazil as it is that the story takes place in a world with a country like Brazil. Or takes a lot of inspiration from the country in any case. It also has an awesome police woman who rocks the best afro.

And I might check out Xabungle. I'm more into characters and story over giant ass mecha, which is why I liked TTGL so much - the characters and plot really appealed to me. The galaxy-throwing mecha was a bonus I never counted on. XD

Sentou Mecha Xabungle, correct? I'll sample an episode or two, but it doesn't really look like my cuppa tea. Like I said, characters and story over mecha and fighting.

author=eplipswich
+1 Scrapped Princess. That was one of the first few anime that I watched many years ago, and I was pleasantly surprised by how good it is.

And Maison Ikkoku...wow that's a pretty old anime (not as old as Ashita no Joe, though). I have watched just the 1st episode so far, but don't feel like watching through 96 episodes at the moment ~ ~

Speaking of long anime, the only two long anime I really devoted to watching through are Bleach and Fairy Tail. Naruto seems cliched to me, and One Piece...well, haven't really gotten around to watching it, and to catch up to its current 677th episode would be arduous for me...