This a whore you favourite anime topic now? Awesome!

Watch:

1 - Ghost in the Shell: SAC
2 - Bokurano
3 - Paranoia Agent
4 - Cowboy Bebop
5 - Mushishi

Now.

Now now.

"It has no place in private or public discourse." If he was referring to anime then all is forgiven. [/sarcasm]

No reasonable person can dismiss art simply because it was drawn by a Japanese person. Even if anime is 99% pandering to sexually repressed 14 or 40 year old males fantasizing about anatomically impossible pre-teen girls; that 1% still produced Cowboy Bebop, Hayo Miyazaki, and the original Ghost in the Shell.

Edit: Made end sarcasm tag visible, lest it be missed.

I never heard the Alex North's score.

Vangelis is very soothing. I actually found a internet radio station called Bluemars that plays alot of really nice spacey chill music.

Anyway here is the embed, just change the embed src with this i highlighted the change in bold, and it will start from the song.

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In reply to this comment by UsesProzac:
I don't know how to do that fancy embed stuff. Maybe you could help me? If I spoke Japanese, that intro would be more entertaining..

I love Vangelis' soundtrack for Blade Runner. It's amazing.

Alex North's original soundtrack for 2001--which didn't get used, ultimately--is pretty great, as well.

In reply to this comment by Farhad2000:
I love having this movie play in the background just for the atmospheric music and dialog. Same thing I do with 2001 and Blade Runner.

Might wanna add a $start=160 or so to kick it off from the music. The introduction is pretty lengthy.

I don't know how to do that fancy embed stuff. Maybe you could help me? If I spoke Japanese, that intro would be more entertaining..

I love Vangelis' soundtrack for Blade Runner. It's amazing.

Alex North's original soundtrack for 2001--which didn't get used, ultimately--is pretty great, as well.

In reply to this comment by Farhad2000:
I love having this movie play in the background just for the atmospheric music and dialog. Same thing I do with 2001 and Blade Runner.

Might wanna add a $start=160 or so to kick it off from the music. The introduction is pretty lengthy.

Much obliged!!

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*promote

Grave of the Fireflies was excellent, probably one my favourite movies of all time, horrendously depressing though. What's your favourite shows? Mine'd probably be:

1 - Ghost in the Shell: SAC
2 - Bokurano
3 - Paranoia Agent
4 - Cowboy Bebop
5 - Mushishi
6 - FMA
7 - Ergo Proxy
8 - Death Note
9 - Baccano!
10 - Planetes

Speaking of Anime... Everyone knows of the great titles like Ghost in the Shell and Ninja Scroll, but here's one you may have passed over. It's called Grave of the Fireflies. I recommend watching the Japanese audio with English subtitles. The Japanese little girl's voice is pretty damn precious.

Like Akira, this is an animated film released in '88. According to wiki, "It is an adaptation of the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka, intended as a personal apology to the author's own sister." And it's amazing. A straight animated drama that will certainly tug at the heart strings.

*beg

I'm a huge fan of Masamune Shirow, and hexapod robots make me think of the Fuchikoma from his Ghost in the Shell manga. Of course, those were loaded with a semi-autonomous networked AI, so they could work independently of a driver... and they had wheels on their feet (which, if I ever get enough money to build a hexapod myself, I would certainly try to add to the design...).

oh..i totally agree.
thats why i made the reference of maybe where robo-tech got its inspiration.
then i saw ghost in the shell...BOOM..mind blown.
star blazers was the show that got me to appreciate a japanese way of story telling.
though sometimes its TOO much,my boys had me watching DBZ,not bad..i liked it,but jeez..sometimes they would just drag a plot to death where i am yelling at the tv C"MOOOOOON.

haha, I can not stand Dragonball.. well I mean, it's not horrid in and of itself, it's just not for me. I was contracting for this one company once and this young couple where talking to each other. The guy was going on about getting his girl into Dragonball, trying to sell her on it and I could tell she wasn't looking forward to the experience. "How many episodes are there?", she asked at one point and I just remember thinking, "You have NOOO idea.". He had the complete collection >.<
And I do remember reading once loooong time ago that Star Wars was one of the biggest influence for the original Macros saga, namely the dog fighting space battles. Could very well be that Starblazers was too with it's continues story arc. I kinda get the impression though there where lots of other such anime's at the time that we never saw. Robotech is three independent cartoons from the same studio brought together and rewritten for the Robotech storyline after all.

I'm not a big anime head, I just try and catch the good ones. Right now I'm looking into Gantz, and Cowboy Beebop easily ranks as my favorite.

In reply to this comment by Drax:
Starblazers is another good one, and yes I watched that one too. >D Robotech had a much more dynamic story to it though. Things changed much more dramatically, and well.. as you can see the animation was often pure eye candy.


oh..i totally agree.
thats why i made the reference of maybe where robo-tech got its inspiration.
then i saw ghost in the shell...BOOM..mind blown.
star blazers was the show that got me to appreciate a japanese way of story telling.
though sometimes its TOO much,my boys had me watching DBZ,not bad..i liked it,but jeez..sometimes they would just drag a plot to death where i am yelling at the tv C"MOOOOOON.

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Wow. They had to blur out the non-nudity.

Ghost in the Shell is hit or miss, but when it hits it's amazingly good. I've never actually seen a more insightful vision of the future.

>> ^quantumushroom:
As long as dem hands can hold the handlebars of a Segway (and Fleshlight) ALL SYSTEMS GO.


Thanks for reminding me about the time Bush fell flat on his face trying to use a Segway... That was priceless...

But seriously, that's just plain tasteless, even for you, QM. Good to know there's people like you to "support" our troops, especially those who have given more than they should have.

Back to the vid though this is awesome, however, I'm a bit concerned of the obvious (to me at least) military applications. Why send a soldier home minus an arm when you can put him back on the battlefield thanks to a prosthetic with an integrated firearm (no pun intended)?

Then again, I'm a huge Ghost in the Shell fan... so maybe I'm just paranoid.

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I for one welcome our new cyborg overlords...
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Yeah, there are a few rare cases where particularly for better known animes the voice acting is done very well, such as:

Ghost in the Shell: SAC 1 & 2
Cowboy Bebop
Fullmetal Alchemist (from memory ...)

Either way, many shows haven't been exported to english audiences or take forever, so you really don't get a choice.

Anyway, wasn't a bad show I guess, but Bokura No takes a similar concept and does it sooo much better.

Subbed all the way, forever.

I can think of one series that had good English voice acting, that was Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, and Gis: SAC 2nd Gig.