I've never really been big into anime. I recently purchased the Ninja Scroll series and Neon Genesis Evangelion on DVD and have enjoyed them. I also watched the FullMetal Alchemist series which seemed more for a younger crowd but I still liked it. My daughters liked it as well (they both watch Avatar the Last Airbender). <
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I'm looking for other recommendations of series that are similar to Ninja Scroll and Neon Genesis. I'm also open other shows/movies that my kids (8 and 12) may enjoy too. <
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I really like Cowboy Bebop
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Gungrave = A awesome story of Honor, love, loss and betrayal. First episode shows 'Beyond The Grave' Who is more than a man now, he came back from the dead to protect those he loves....and from there they basically fade into how he got to where he was and how he died, and came back, and then the story picks up from that spot again later on down.<
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Caveat : ABSOLUTELY... NOT... for children to watch. Under any circumstance.<
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Ninja Scroll, Vampire Hunter D[Either] = The most over-hyped tripe I have seen in the last decade produced by anyone doing anime.<
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Death rehashes the first 24 epsiodes in a 2 hour movie, cut in a differnt fashion, then goes and completely redoes 25 and 26 in a differnt fashion for those who were either two confused by the esoteric original ending, or just did not like it. (personally; I dug the orignal ending)<
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Samurai Champloo. Oddly enough once they get past the "Fuu get's kidnapped" stuff, this show is showing.. uh.. promise.<
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FLCL. Uhm. Yeah. For me? Not a chance. But for those of you DEEP, and I do mean DEEP into the mind-fuck Neon Genesis was and is, this is a good blow off of steam. Poruduced by the people who made Neon genesis just for that purpose. Only 6 episodes long. <i></i>

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I love Grave of the Fireflies, and I unabashedly bawl my way through it a few times a year.<
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Huge fan of the seminal work, Akira. I'm also partial to Vampire Hunter D but the art is of a slightly different, almost 'sloppier' style. <
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Series-wise, Cowboy Bebop, Bleach, Outlaw Star, and Bubblegum Crisis were all big hits in my household.<
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Don't listen to Syuni... Grave of the fireflies will make you wish to gouge your eyeballs out with a spoon.
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Aren't "Princess Mononoke" and "Fist of the North Star" supposed to be good?<
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And yeah, Princess Mononoke & Spirited Away weren't bad at all.<
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Fist of the North Star is everything wrong about Dragonball Z in a 2-hour film. Syuni D'zpecyzczn<
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Hmm.. You liked ninja scroll...and evangellion.<
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Do you prefer the movies, or the series ? I prefer anime series myself, but some prefer the movies. Anyway, here are some suggestions :<
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RahXephon =Kinda Like Evangellion, but not nearly as strange near the end.<
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NOIR = Story about two female assassins who team up to perform their work. This is a backdrop into figuring out why the young assassin has no memory, yet is so good at what she does.<
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Cowboy bebop = Story about 4 unlikely bounty hunters. Set in space<
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Angelic Layer (for your daughters) = Young girl grows up a little as she takes part in a sport where you build "battledolls" and have them fight for you.<
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(note, angelic layer sounds stupid, but is actually pretty good, lots of action, yet has some story to it too...)<
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I have a huge collection of this stuff, and watch everything except "pokemon" and XXX stuff. Not into anime furrys etc, heh. <
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Seem to recall Fist of the North Star being very.. bloody.. extravagently so... ludicrously so. But it's been a good ten years I think since I laid eyes on it.<
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Wanna be put to sleep? Go rent Harmageddon.<
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Visually intruiged, and alternetly ied at the same time? Urotsukidoji Any of the 4 series. ~IF~ you could get rid of the tentaclkes, and uh.. sex. There's a good story in there... shame it had to be buried in Tentacle-Hentai.<
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Bibbglegum Crisis, BubbleGum Crash, AD Police, Bubblegum Crisis 2040, and the new AD Police I like a lot.<
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And All i can remember is Anipuna, and Yunipina.. the mercenary cat girls, and the tank Bonaprte.. why can't I think of the series name? The original series was good but a bit droll. I liked the new one better.<
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As mentioned earlier. Either rendition of Macross Plus. Either the mini-series or the mvovie(Differning cuts is all, btu the story changes for each cut quite a bit). <
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Personal opinions vary, but Outlaw Star should have been outlawed from television.<
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Hmm. Venus Wars? Good movie. if you can stay awake. Very slow. <
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Wanna be freaked out by random inserts of real film violence? Genocyber, damned odd story.<
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Trying hard to think. All my anime of any serious quality is in storage, and has been boxed up since Sept 2001, I had over 140+ Anime tapes back then.<
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Cutie Honey? Barf. For those who wished Sailor Moon showed bare skin when the girls changed forms. And just as cheesy.<
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Iczer One? The original series was... passable. Look for Red Ass and Blue Balls to appear. (inside joke, watch it and figure it out) Haven't seen any of the newer stuff.<
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Super Science Ninja Team Gatchaman! The new series. Only watch for Nostalgia's sake. if you remember G-Force as a child.<
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Zillion. Ultra rare and basically unknown. If you liked Macross and the like. You'll like this rather
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Street Fight 2 the Movie. Not connected to the goofy series. or the abortion of a live Action movie, look for the Unrated one. The bood is more prevalent, and there is an obligatory shower scene. There's nothing like Chun Li fighting Vega in that movie, the thing she does to his face with her foot makes me cringe every time I see it.<
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Fatal Fury? The whole series. Screw everyone else. I liked it. Watch it. Terry Bogard's "girlfriend" in tyhe first tape? Hubba hubba... why can't more Anime women be shaped like that? Dress that way too....<
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I am sure there is more, one series keeps slipping through my mind, and I can't think of the name of it. Some guy genetically grown and trained to fight.. kills everything in sight. sprays blood all over the damn place, set on some other world in the future(sounds like half the anime in production or ever made doesn't it?) His character in armor was the corporate logog fomr an Anime production company here in America. Whatever in the hell it was.. avoid it like the plague. Helpful, huh?<
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Magic Users Club and Azumanga Daioh are good funny and overly cute animes. Kids probably like those.<
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Fruits Basket, Voices of a Distant Star/She and her Cat good cute and girly animes.<
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Action, if you liked Eva, you'd probably have liked Robotech, Vandread and Rahxephon if you were into the mech stuff. Captain Harlock is another oldie thats really great. <
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Robotech :The Invid Invasion<
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As for like Ninja Scroll? Nothing I can put my hands on or think of. I despised the show personally, and don't tend to watch things along those lines.<
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Perfect Blue - Modern. could have easily been live action without a hitch. No fantasy, no magic. No B.S.<
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Perfect Blue is probably the only sci-fi'ish show I ever liked other then Outlaw Star, that was a really good show.<
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Witch Hunter Robin was actually pretty good minus the lack of action...but when it did happen it was like Boom Bitch, get out the way !!!<
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And the one that has a setting in a online game....for some odd reason I forget the name but there is like a more adult type that was really good and then a more kiddy one that was just retarded. They made like 4 games for the ps2 about it that should have been made into one. Once I hear the name I will be like DUH.<
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I had the misfortune like a lot of kids when I was younger to have a father in the military, who chose to take over seas duties and decided NOT to take his family with him. One of the benefits however during his various assignments, was being assigned in Japan, and other asian countries. He used to send me toys, and some 8mm bootlegged recordings of shows. Great visually. but in a forgien language. I had no idea what was being said.<
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Some of those toys. such as the Japanese version of Mazinga[Shogun Warriors] (Tranzor-Z in the states), were duplicated but never fully replicated in the states(my Mazinga had the full-on spaceship module in the head, the American Versions had a ship you could PRY out. but the ship had no nose cone, and was never meant to actually be removed from the body. SOME inital copies of the toy were just shipped over from japan, but after a short period they disconiued the spaceship to america. Never knew why.)<
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Years later after he left the service. He had friends who would still send him stuff at his request for me to get for christmas. Two of those toys I recived were Voltron 1 and 3, the full on diecast versions[a lost art, inside joke for cartoon watchers] of the toys, fully integratable, and fully poseable. The likes of which was, again, duplicated, but not quite replicated here in the states.<
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I did try, BTW, to get a toy copy of Voltron 2, the Three robots. Apparently, however, the show and the toy line suffered much the same as many shows do in the states. Extremely poor popularity. The show didn't last long enough for more than a few toys to be made, and quickly fell into obscurity. Not even sure many japanese kids would even know what it was short of seeing the 3 robots on the box of the toys, Which I am given to understand were shortly removed as well since they did not sell well, and were no longer being made.<
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"I did try, BTW, to get a toy copy of Voltron 2, the Three robots. Apparently, however, the show and the toy line suffered much the same as many shows do in the states. Extremely poor popularity."<
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Naruto is good until ep 135, just fillers until spring 2006 from there on so manga can get ahead again.<
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Hellsing owns.<
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Excel Saga is hillarity.<
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Full Metal Panic owns, ALOT. all 3 of them.<
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Full Metal Alchemist is good.<
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Chobits is good.<
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Chrno Crusade owns.<
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Hunter X Hunter is a great show.<
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Elfen Leid, if you want to be disturbed : ) <i></i>

Elfen Lied* And I actually found it to be an... Interesting to say the least ... Series. Have all four Vectors. Bought them as they were released. Apart from the totally random and pointless nudity, it's actually a pretty good series. <i></i>

FLCL is only 6 episodes but i know it seems like it's more since they really fuck around with the timeline during some of the episodes. <a href="http://www.botepidemic.com/frikbot/q1mons/"><img src="http://www.botepidemic.com/frikbot/q1mons/enforcer.jpg" border=0 alt="I'm An Enforcer! Take the 'What Quake monster am I?' test!"></a><i></i>

i like animu <i></i>

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One Piece is a great show that hasn't been mentioned. It's an exciting pirate adventure on the high seas with a blend of comedy, action and adventure. It follows the Straw Hat Pirate crew as they follow their dreams during the great age of pirates. It is really long and already has 253 shows aired in Japan with no sign of ever stopping. <
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Samurai Shamploo<
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Basilisk<
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Full Metal Alchemist<
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Trigun<
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Wolf's Rain (really sad)<
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Inuyasha (really long)<
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Naruto (really long and some episodes seem pointless)<
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Full Metal Alchemist (this is my favorite)<
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Evangelion (you'll either like it or hate it. it sets a weird, dark mood)<
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