Your favourite anime series?

[Nemesis 0]

Heh, A9 can recite everything in history up to the October Revolution.

Even stuff about, Sting and the police, the beetles, The Eagles, Megadeath, and AC/DC

 

yes I'm listening to music

[Dumbass 0]

Even stuff about, Sting and the police, the beetles, The Eagles, Megadeath, and AC/DC

Sting, The Police, Megadeath and AC/DC are hardly ancient history!

 

::mutters:: Young whipper-snappers... :)

[Atragon9 0]

Not sure what that is, can you elaborate :)

It's an old, Japanese animation cartoon around the era of Speed Racer.

[STSF Precip 0]

Robotech grabs my attention as my favorite anime series. When I was younger I was watching Anime cartoons but I have forgotten their names. One featured a ship that was called the Phoenix and transformed into a phoenix of fire.

 

The other one I remember is one that featured the World War 2 Battleship Yamato..reconfigured into a SpaceCruiser that was sent on a mission to save the Earth. Cannot recall the name of this series either.

 

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[Dumbass 0]

Robotech grabs my attention as my favorite anime series. When I was younger I was watching Anime cartoons but I have forgotten their names. One featured a ship that was called the Phoenix and transformed into a phoenix of fire.

 

The other one I remember is one that featured the World War 2 Battleship Yamato..reconfigured into a SpaceCruiser that was sent on a mission to save the Earth. Cannot recall the name of this series either.

1) Battle of the Planets. I'm not sure what the Japanese name was.

 

2) Star Blazers. The Japanese name was Battleship Yamato.

 

And yes, Robotech was cool. I'm surprised no one mentioned it until now. :)

[Trichon 0]

I am suprised that there is only one mention of Evangelion on here. I like to think of it as not only the greatest anime of all time but also the thinking mans anime. There is so much symbolism and metaphors in there that it will make your head swim, and dont ever try watching the movie if you need to not to scratch your head and ask yourself, "What the heck did I just see?"

[Seiben 0]

Yeah, exactly Trichon. Unlike most animes - and movies in general, Evangelion does make you think. The show has many symbolisms, and regiloius refrences, such as the MAGI supercomputers, the Angels, and the EVAs (Evangelions) -- which are based on The Barons of Hell here. The movie itself has points mentioned in the Dead Sea Scrols. See here If you browze around that site, you'll find useful information pertaining to the series. (Warning! Site contains spoilers!) However, it is very hard to follow. You have view each episode in order, otherwise it won't make sense. And you have to see the series (all 26 episodes) before you see the movie. I highly reccomend it if you consider yourself an anime fan, but it is quite violent (18+ voilent) , and has scenes of nudity. I purchased the box set, on eBay for $88 US, and it was well worth the price. But you could probably rent it from Block Buster (including the two movies, which I also recommend). Collections 1-4, are mostly fighting and character introduction, but after that, the series focuses in on character development -- and not just the main characters too. I've seen the whole series about four times, and I'm still not sick of it. Hey did you also hear that Gainax (the company that created Evangelion) is making a live action movie of Evangelion, coming out in 2005 or 2006? I wonder how they're gonna pull that off, but it probably won't be as good as the anime version. :)

Edited January 15, 2004 by Seiben

[Ultima 0]

Then let me ask the obvious question

 

How the heck did they translate "Kaitei Gunkan", whatever that means in Japanese, into a non-existant English word?

"Gunkan" translates as "warship" from Japanese, while "Kaitei" means "bottom of the ocean." So the original Japanese title meant "Undersea battleship."

 

I've never seen the movie, but, from what I gather, there was something in the movie called the "Atoragon." It must be a proper name because it's nothing close to a Japanese word; could have been the ship name. "T" sounds can't stand alone in Japanese, but they can in English. My guess is that the US distributors, Sandy Frank Entertainment (yes I spent way too much time with this question), picked out Atoragon as a more interesting movie title for the US than Undersea Battleship. Atoragon doesn't have a very smooth sound in English (Ah-tow-rah-gone), so they dropped a syllable to even pronunciation out.

 

Seems like a plausible explanation to me, even though most of it's conjecture.

 

I love Japanese :)

[Atragon9 0]

"Gunkan" translates as "warship" from Japanese, while "Kaitei" means "bottom of the ocean." So the original Japanese title meant "Undersea battleship."

 

I've never seen the movie, but, from what I gather, there was something in the movie called the "Atoragon." It must be a proper name because it's nothing close to a Japanese word; could have been the ship name. "T" sounds can't stand alone in Japanese, but they can in English. My guess is that the US distributors, Sandy Frank Entertainment (yes I spent way too much time with this question), picked out Atoragon as a more interesting movie title for the US than Undersea Battleship. Atoragon doesn't have a very smooth sound in English (Ah-tow-rah-gone), so they dropped a syllable to even pronunciation out.

 

Seems like a plausible explanation to me, even though most of it's conjecture.

 

I love Japanese :)

Yes, it had two names, either "Atragon" or "Atoragon - Flying Supersub"

 

The long and weird story is that near the end of WWII, a sub commander turned away from an unquestioning defeat and ran. Having shamed themselves in the eyes of the Emperor, they went into hiding. Flash forward 20 years and find that the world is being threatened by the people of Mu (or Atlantis) who decide that the surface dwellers are to become the slaves of the sea lords. They have amazing technology and it looks as all is lost, until...

 

Out of the sky appears Atragon, the sub and crew that have been in hiding for 20 years in hopes to regain favor in the eyes of the Emperor. They have been working in secret and have figured out how to make the sub fly (oh, and there's a huge drillbit on the front of it, too). Anyway, they defeat the people of Mu and send them back to the deep, saving the day and making up for their earlier disgrace.

 

I recall that it was on TV many years back and reading the NY Times review of it for that day's TV listings - just two words, "nice model." I was intrigued enough to watch it. It's a pretty lame movie (I own it on VHS now, of course), but I always loved the name.

 

It wasn't until another 20-30 years went by that the modern-day Anime folks decided to dig up the idea and make an Anime feature/show called Super Atragon that took the flying sub and put it out in space - but I got it from the original live action movie.

[Ultima 0]

 

Flash forward 20 years and find that the world is being threatened by the people of Mu (or Atlantis) who decide that the surface dwellers are to become the slaves of the sea lords.  They have amazing technology and it looks as all is lost

On the Manticore, however, we flash 5,000 years forward into the future, and it's Atragon that has decided that the rest of the crew is to become the slaves of the command staff. And yes, it looks as if all is lost there too :)

 

The only anime I've ever watched is Naruto, about an energetic ninja boy. But then again I'm about 20 years younger then most of the people here ::coughBlucough:: Naruto's actually a current one, in its third year. It's only available on the internet in the States, but I'm pretty good with Japanese so I can read it before its subbed by fans. Fun stuff.

[STSF Precip 0]

Battle of the Planets and Star Blazers! Thanks Dumbass!

 

As for Robotech not being mentioned, perhaps I was the only guy coming home from school who couldn't wait to see those veritech fighters...and charcter driven stories. Robotech as a TV series lacked some of the qualitiy animation seen in the others metnioned here. But As I recall in the 80's no other series focused so much on characters as well as action.

 

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[Dumbass 0]

Robotech as a TV series lacked some of the qualitiy animation seen in the others metnioned here.

True, but then it was the 80s. We took what we could get.

[Seiben 0]

Thinking back to 1980s programming, and animes.. yeah, that's pretty much true. :)

[STSF_BluRox 0]

Yes, it had two names, either "Atragon" or "Atoragon - Flying Supersub"....

Now I'm stuck with the vision of a huge flying hoagie commanding the Manticore.....

 

ugh....

[Seiben 0]

Now I'm stuck with the vision of a huge flying hoagie commanding the Manticore.....

 

ugh....

I don't know about anyone else, but that mental image is making me hungry. :) However, I was surprised there is an anime called 'Atragon'. I always thought A-9's name was derrived from Aragorn. (LOTR)

[Deanna Troi 0]

My Favorite Anime series is Geneshaft.