What is your Favorite Anime / Manga?

Pillywiggin · Post by **Pillywiggin** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:01 am

cat42 wrote:
rock_dash wrote:My favorite anime? Anything with catgirls...
I've actually found catgirl anime vaguely hard to find, I've only found 3 series, infact: Dominion Tank Police, Hyper Police, and All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku.

...Outlaw Star, DiGi Charat, Samurai Pizza Cats, Kiki the Novice Angel, Appleseed, Outlanders, Pilot Candidate, Geobreeders, Escaflowne, Dragon Pink... I'm sure I'm missing a lot. Does whatshername from Chobits or Shampoo from Ranma count?

Cat42 · Post by **Cat42** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:37 am

Pillywiggin wrote:
cat42 wrote:
rock_dash wrote:My favorite anime? Anything with catgirls...
I've actually found catgirl anime vaguely hard to find, I've only found 3 series, infact: Dominion Tank Police, Hyper Police, and All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku.
...Outlaw Star, DiGi Charat, Samurai Pizza Cats, Kiki the Novice Angel, Appleseed, Outlanders, Pilot Candidate, Geobreeders, Escaflowne, Dragon Pink... I'm sure I'm missing a lot. Does whatshername from Chobits or Shampoo from Ranma count?

Dammit, I used to watch Samurai Pizza Cats as a kid too...

I will say right here and now: Shampoo does not count, she's a were-cat, not a cat-girl. Thing I think is kinda funny, there are pics of Ranma dressed up as a catgirl...

Col · Post by **Col** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 9:45 am

On the note of seeing anime when you're way too young, I rented a Guyver episode one time when I was... eight or nine, and man, that nearly screwed me up for good. I only watched about the first twenty minutes, and I turned it off right after Guyver broke this big monster's arms in half, and was about to do something to it's head. It was a weird day after that...

I have trouble getting into manga, though I do enjoy some of the older stuff (which I can't think the name of right now. It was something yeahduff had left at the desk in the gallery we both worked at. That was also how I got to read Johnny the Homicidal Maniac.

)

Anyway, in terms of anime, probably Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne, and FLCL. Yay.

BrownEyedCat · Post by **BrownEyedCat** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 10:25 am

More cat-girl anime: Tokyo Mew Mew, and Magical Meow Meow Taruto.

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 10:39 am

Haha Col, I watched Project A-Ko on the Sci-Fi when I was eight or nine (or whenever they did Saturday Japanime). I had no idea what was going on

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Cat42 · Post by **Cat42** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 3:00 pm

Mercury Hat wrote:Haha Col, I watched Project A-Ko on the Sci-Fi when I was eight or nine (or whenever they did Saturday Japanime). I had no idea what was going on .

Sci-Fi's overly censored anime showings is actually how I discovered Dominion Tank Police (and in general, Masamune Shirow).

My mother is the person who really got me into it, and Project A-Ko was one of the first I saw.
Both Project A-Ko and Ranma 1/2 have a special place in both of our hearts.

Regaurding the Catgirl thing, I feel incredibly stupid now...

Col · Post by **Col** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 6:42 pm

Mercury Hat wrote:Haha Col, I watched Project A-Ko on the Sci-Fi when I was eight or nine (or whenever they did Saturday Japanime). I had no idea what was going on .

Better to be confused than nearly scarred for life!

KittyKatBlack · Post by **KittyKatBlack** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 10:32 pm

cat42 wrote:
Pillywiggin wrote:
cat42 wrote: I've actually found catgirl anime vaguely hard to find, I've only found 3 series, infact: Dominion Tank Police, Hyper Police, and All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku.
...Outlaw Star, DiGi Charat, Samurai Pizza Cats, Kiki the Novice Angel, Appleseed, Outlanders, Pilot Candidate, Geobreeders, Escaflowne, Dragon Pink... I'm sure I'm missing a lot. Does whatshername from Chobits or Shampoo from Ranma count?
Dammit, I used to watch Samurai Pizza Cats as a kid too...

I will say right here and now: Shampoo does not count, she's a were-cat, not a cat-girl. Thing I think is kinda funny, there are pics of Ranma dressed up as a catgirl...

Especially since he has a deathly fear of cats.

Psychoticdesires · Post by **Psychoticdesires** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 5:28 am

rock_dash wrote:My favorite anime? Anything with catgirls...

catgirls are hot!

The Neko · Post by **The Neko** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:48 am

I had to read some really shitty manga at work, but sometimes there were also really good ones. Probably the best art that I've encountered came from MPD Psycho. The stories were pretty variable, but the one that I ended up enjoying the most was Musashi #9.

A bunch of the stuff that TokyoPop started picking up is prettymuch bad from most angles. Viz usually picks up pretty nice titles though, since they have a lot of Shueisha and Shogakkukan titles.

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 12:18 pm

The Neko wrote:A bunch of the stuff that TokyoPop started picking up is prettymuch bad from most angles.

That could be because Tokyopop seems to have this "snatch up everything and publish it really quickly -- we don't even have time for that spell-checker!" philosophy ... or possibly because the majority of manga is juvenile, derivative, or generally crappy. (Although I agree, Viz has licensed a number of great titles. I've pre-ordered volume 1 of Monster.)

wp wrote:I'm reading this awesome short manga right now called "King of Thorns," and it is a masterfully executed take on the whole "end of the world" plot.

I took a look at that series and ... man, why do the Germans get a translated version and we don't?! I read a few chapters, and now I really wish an English company would license it...

Nightgaunt · Post by **Nightgaunt** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:08 pm

I'm currently reading Hellsing, I think because someone in this thread said it was really good and I needed something to read. It's ok. Not great, but good enough for me to be curious about the storyline and continue reading it. Funnily (is that a word?) enough my friends and I used to joke that the ultimate villains would be zombie cyborg nazis, so I laughed a lot at the whole zombie nazi villains in it.

BrownEyedCat · Post by **BrownEyedCat** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:19 pm

Nightgaunt wrote:I'm currently reading Hellsing, I think because someone in this thread said it was really good and I needed something to read. It's ok. Not great, but good enough for me to be curious about the storyline and continue reading it. Funnily (is that a word?) enough my friends and I used to joke that the ultimate villains would be zombie cyborg nazis, so I laughed a lot at the whole zombie nazi villains in it.

That makes me think of Johnny Mnemonic, actually. They were doing pretty good with Cyborg Assassin Jesus, but then they had to do a fake-out and bilk me out of Zombie Cyborg Assassin Jesus.

. . . Yeah, that was a spoiler. And if anyone cares I spoiled part of Johnny Mnemonic, I'll laugh at them.

Cat42 · Post by **Cat42** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:49 pm

BrownEyedCat wrote:. . . Yeah, that was a spoiler. And if anyone cares I spoiled part of Johnny Mnemonic, I'll laugh at them.

You shouldn't mock such a masterpiece. Keanu Reeves deserves an Oscar for his portrayl of the true, and harrowing tales of a bike messenger.

BrownEyedCat · Post by **BrownEyedCat** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:03 pm

I just fail to see why screaming about wanting a hooker made his character sympathetic to the female lead.

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:16 pm

What I really wish, though, is that they'd bring the Read or Die manga over.

Cat42 · Post by **Cat42** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 11:27 pm

BrownEyedCat wrote:I just fail to see why screaming about wanting a hooker made his character sympathetic to the female lead.

You know, I haven't seen that movie for so long that I can't remember a damn thing about it except that jesus is evil and dolphins are hackers.

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 1:14 am

cat42 wrote:
BrownEyedCat wrote:I just fail to see why screaming about wanting a hooker made his character sympathetic to the female lead.
You know, I haven't seen that movie for so long that I can't remember a damn thing about it except that jesus is evil and dolphins are hackers.

I recall henry Rollings in it.. thats about it. oh and that neat o holographic box cover.

Col · Post by **Col** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 5:01 am

Don't forget the guy with the crazy thumb-laser-line-thingie!

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