Official Manga/Anime Thread

@Jonny_Anonymous: Thanks, I'll have a look

@ReVamp: I don't really know. I have very little experience with anime but its been recommended to me before. Is there anything that really stands out as a good one to watch?

@guttridgeb: Sure. About 100 different series.

But yes, start with FMA: Brotherhood. The reason is that its a good, if not the, example of what a Standard Shonen Anime/Manga is and should be. Not that its generic in any way. Also, its isn't overly long, so it gives you a taste without having to commit to the 100+ monsters that some series are.

@ReVamp: Awesome thank you, I didn't realize just a broad a genre anime is.

@Project_Worm said:

@ReVamp said:

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@ReVamp said:

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@ReVamp: I did watch the first episode of Darker than Black ages ago but didn't think it was that good but Project Worm said to stick with it

Project Worm is wise.

any more words of wisdom @Project_Worm?

Probably. He's on a streak. Two by my count. Now that impressive, but its the effort that counts.

Uhm... I'm having trouble thinking of others. Code Gease is okay. You might like Deadman Wonderland... It was a little to WTF for my taste though.

Code Geass is good if you like Death Note style things, with a bit of Mecha.

Deadman Wonderland truly is WTF.

@Jonny_Anonymous: Thanks. I shall report back to this thread once I have tried them ;)

@guttridgeb if you're watching anime for the first time FMA might be too much. Death Note would be a good one to start with or Cowboy Bebop is the godfather of anime. As I said before though it depends if you like to think or be amazed by visuals every anime fan is different.

@Jonny_Anonymous:

• Gundam Wing,
• Gundam SEED/SEED Destiny,
• RanXephon (similar to Evangelion, but less...whatever, when you watch Evangelion you'll understand)
• Evangelion, of course. Love it or hate it, really.
• Macross Frontier. My favorite as of the moment.

@Jonny_Anonymous:

• Gundam Wing,
• Gundam SEED/SEED Destiny,
• RanXephon (similar to Evangelion, but less...whatever, when you watch Evangelion you'll understand)
• Evangelion, of course. Love it or hate it, really.
• Macross Frontier. My favorite as of the moment.

@Irishlad: Personally I think Death Note might be to much for a Comic dude to start out on. FMA has all the classic heroic stuff.

@Irishlad: Deadman Wonderland, Kekkashi, and Durarara were all cut to short and should all be continued

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@ReVamp said:

@Jonny_Anonymous:

• Gundam Wing,
• Gundam SEED/SEED Destiny,
• RanXephon (similar to Evangelion, but less...whatever, when you watch Evangelion you'll understand)
• Evangelion, of course. Love it or hate it, really.
• Macross Frontier. My favorite as of the moment.

What would you say is the best out of all of these? Or atleast the one I would like the most

It really is hard to tell:

• Gundam Wing is an oldie. A Classic, so to speak, but it probably won't be your favorite, though you'll appreciate it.
• I love SEED and all that, but I get mixed feelings. It can be really slow-paced and whatnot.
• RanXephon isn't anything extremely special, but its definitely a solid. Its the only one of these that I don't have experience with. So I can't tell you much more.
• Evangelion is love it or hate it, but it definitely did things for Anime. I read the beginning but I haven't gone all the way. Ran out of Volumes at the store, dammit.
• Macross Frontier is pretty amazing.

If I had to pick at gun-point, I'd say:

1. Macross Frontier, so you're eased into things
2. Evangelion. I don't think it should be the first experience you have with Mecha.
3. If you loved Evangelion watch Ran. If you hated it for its eccentricities watch Ran.
4. SEED would go last, since its the longest by far. Hell, that and the sequel is bigger than all three put together by far.

Regardless of whatever happens, watch Gundam Wing. I'd say to get more Anime experience and watch it later, it'd probably make it more enjoyable. I guess. It doesn't really enter the order.

@Irishlad: Personally I think Death Note might be to much for a Comic dude to start out on. FMA has all the classic heroic stuff.

@Jonny_Anonymous:I'm getting bad into anime.Hahah.It hasn't been long since I said that I'm not interested.So should I watch only Full Metal Alchemist or should I start some other anime,too?

@Jonny_Anonymous:I'm getting bad into anime.Hahah.It hasn't been long since I said that I'm not interested.So should I watch only Full Metal Alchemist or should I start some other anime,too?

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@TDK_1997 said:

@Jonny_Anonymous:I'm getting bad into anime.Hahah.It hasn't been long since I said that I'm not interested.So should I watch only Full Metal Alchemist or should I start some other anime,too?

FMA: Brotherhood and Sword of the Stranger are musts IMO other than that what are you interested in?

Well basically action,something more supernatural like Fairy Tail and Bleach.I like comedies too and maybe drama.

@TDK_1997 said:

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@TDK_1997 said:

@Jonny_Anonymous:I'm getting bad into anime.Hahah.It hasn't been long since I said that I'm not interested.So should I watch only Full Metal Alchemist or should I start some other anime,too?

FMA: Brotherhood and Sword of the Stranger are musts IMO other than that what are you interested in?

Well basically action,something more supernatural like Fairy Tail and Bleach.I like comedies too and maybe drama.

You should try D. Gray-Man or Soul Eater. Have you watched Naruto? @ReVamp what say you?

@TDK_1997 Trigun maybe?

Also I know I've mentioned it but Baccano's great too it has a good mix of comedy and drama

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@TDK_1997 said:

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@TDK_1997 said:

@Jonny_Anonymous:I'm getting bad into anime.Hahah.It hasn't been long since I said that I'm not interested.So should I watch only Full Metal Alchemist or should I start some other anime,too?

FMA: Brotherhood and Sword of the Stranger are musts IMO other than that what are you interested in?

Well basically action,something more supernatural like Fairy Tail and Bleach.I like comedies too and maybe drama.

You should try D. Gray-Man or Soul Eater. Have you watched Naruto? @ReVamp what say you?

I have watched Naruto and it was good but Shippuuden was more interesting to me.

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@TDK_1997 said:

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@TDK_1997 said:

@Jonny_Anonymous:I'm getting bad into anime.Hahah.It hasn't been long since I said that I'm not interested.So should I watch only Full Metal Alchemist or should I start some other anime,too?

FMA: Brotherhood and Sword of the Stranger are musts IMO other than that what are you interested in?

Well basically action,something more supernatural like Fairy Tail and Bleach.I like comedies too and maybe drama.

You should try D. Gray-Man or Soul Eater. Have you watched Naruto? @ReVamp what say you?

They both fit into Supernatural, definitely. In Fact, both have similar themes to Bleach. (Death Reapers/Exorcists). Get Backers falls into the Category of Action/Supernatural too, but its nothing like the others in terms of tone and themes. Not to mention characters. Its a different side of Manga. Code Breaker is starting soon and I keep hearing good things from the Manga. Not to mention its from the creator of Samurai Deeper Kyo (which does not fit the criteria you're looking for).

It would be helpful to know exactly what you like more specifically, ie Character types, themes and the like considering there are a bunch of things that fall into your Category.

@TDK_1997 said:

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@TDK_1997 said:

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@TDK_1997 said:

@Jonny_Anonymous:I'm getting bad into anime.Hahah.It hasn't been long since I said that I'm not interested.So should I watch only Full Metal Alchemist or should I start some other anime,too?

FMA: Brotherhood and Sword of the Stranger are musts IMO other than that what are you interested in?

Well basically action,something more supernatural like Fairy Tail and Bleach.I like comedies too and maybe drama.

You should try D. Gray-Man or Soul Eater. Have you watched Naruto? @ReVamp what say you?

I have watched Naruto and it was good but Shippuuden was more interesting to me.

Oh yea, like @Irishlad Baccano! is a good shout

Buso Renkin

/thread

@ReVamp said:

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@TDK_1997 said:

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@TDK_1997 said:

@Jonny_Anonymous:I'm getting bad into anime.Hahah.It hasn't been long since I said that I'm not interested.So should I watch only Full Metal Alchemist or should I start some other anime,too?

FMA: Brotherhood and Sword of the Stranger are musts IMO other than that what are you interested in?

Well basically action,something more supernatural like Fairy Tail and Bleach.I like comedies too and maybe drama.

You should try D. Gray-Man or Soul Eater. Have you watched Naruto? @ReVamp what say you?

They both fit into Supernatural, definitely. In Fact, both have similar themes to Bleach. (Death Reapers/Exorcists). Get Backers falls into the Category of Action/Supernatural too, but its nothing like the others in terms of tone and themes. Not to mention characters. Its a different side of Manga. Code Breaker is starting soon and I keep hearing good things from the Manga. Not to mention its from the creator of Samurai Deeper Kyo (which does not fit the criteria you're looking for).

It would be helpful to know exactly what you like more specifically, ie Character types, themes and the like considering there are a bunch of things that fall into your Category.

The characters I most like are something like Jiraiya,Shikamaru,Gaara,Ichigo,Kenpachi and Natsu.My taste is mixed and I can definitely can love every anime.I like more series animes.All though Fairy Tail and Naruto are really funny at moments.

@Strafe Prower said:

Buso Renkin

/thread

You know something? I tried that and it felt... meh. But since I'm currently reading Rurouni Kenshin in those VizBig editions, I may try that afterwards.

@ReVamp: Give it a second try. It's worth it IMO.

@Strafe Prower said:

@ReVamp: Give it a second try. It's worth it IMO.

I definitely will... Hopefully... Maybe...

@ReVamp: haha

TBH, I'm a bit out of date with manga. I've only read 4 of them, but I watched a bit more anime than that. Mostly movies.

@Strafe Prower said:

@ReVamp: haha

TBH, I'm a bit out of date with manga. I've only read 4 of them, but I watched a bit more anime than that. Mostly movies.

Never been much of a Movie guy myself, if I have to be honest.

GUNDAM!!!!!

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I recently started watching Gundam...the only anime I've ever watched other than DBZ and Ronin Warriors....it's AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@ReVamp: Really? Howl's Moving Castle made a believer out of me. Princess Mononoke, Akira, Appleseed, and Spirited Away helped as well.

@ReVamp: Manga or comics?

@danhimself: I finally found someone else who has watched Ronin Warriors! I used to love that show.

@Strafe Prower: I have the complete dvd set..watched it over just a few weeks ago...still holds up

@danhimself: Nice! I haven't watched it in quite a few years.

@Strafe Prower: it'd be really nice if they would remaster it...I'd love to watch it in HD

DBZ!

Whoo whoo!

@danhimself: I agree. I would buy it if they did so.

@Strafe Prower: same here...though the I imagine the price would be ridiculous...I've been looking for some of the Gundam series on blu-ray and they're highly overpriced

@danhimself: Doesn't surprise me. They like to overprice stuff like that.

Bad thing is, there is a site for this, but there are more fans of animé/manga on this site that even post on AniméVice. :/

I saw someone post Sword Art Online, I'm enjoying that. Got a friend into it before also.

Although I haven't kept up with it, I'd suggest Eureka Seven: Astral Ocean. Dusk Maiden of Amnesia. Bakemonogatari (In my top 5), Tenchi Muyo: Rho Ohki (top 2). Dragon Ball (I like more than Z, but Z is top on the count it got me into animé), can't go wrong with come Cowboy Bebop and I'm currently started watching Steins; Gate.

Also, Redline was awesome! I love watching anime like that. Been trying to watch Paprika for 6 years. Always forgot. But now I have it ready to watch.

@Strafe Prower said:

@ReVamp: Really? Howl's Moving Castle made a believer out of me. Princess Mononoke, Akira, Appleseed, and Spirited Away helped as well.

Seen Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away.

@Supreme Marvel: I'm on Anime Vice

@ReVamp said:

@Strafe Prower said:

@ReVamp: Really? Howl's Moving Castle made a believer out of me. Princess Mononoke, Akira, Appleseed, and Spirited Away helped as well.

Seen Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away.

Howl's is my favorite of the bunch.

@ReVamp said:

@Strafe Prower said:

@ReVamp: Really? Howl's Moving Castle made a believer out of me. Princess Mononoke, Akira, Appleseed, and Spirited Away helped as well.

Seen Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away.

Howl's Moving Castle > Spirited Away.

Just Saiyan.

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@Supreme Marvel: I'm on Anime Vice

Same name?

@Supreme Marvel said:

Bad thing is, there is a site for this, but there are more fans of animé/manga on this site that even post on AniméVice. :/

I saw someone post Sword Art Online, I'm enjoying that. Got a friend into it before also.

Although I haven't kept up with it, I'd suggest Eureka Seven: Astral Ocean. Dusk Maiden of Amnesia. Bakemonogatari (In my top 5), Tenchi Muyo: Rho Ohki (top 2). Dragon Ball (I like more than Z, but Z is top on the count it got me into animé), can't go wrong with come Cowboy Bebop and I'm currently started watching Steins; Gate.

Also, Redline was awesome! I love watching anime like that. Been trying to watch Paprika for 6 years. Always forgot. But now I have it ready to watch.

I'm a member, but it seems kind of dead.

@Supreme Marvel said:

Bad thing is, there is a site for this, but there are more fans of animé/manga on this site that even post on AniméVice. :/

I saw someone post Sword Art Online, I'm enjoying that. Got a friend into it before also.

Although I haven't kept up with it, I'd suggest Eureka Seven: Astral Ocean. Dusk Maiden of Amnesia. Bakemonogatari (In my top 5), Tenchi Muyo: Rho Ohki (top 2). Dragon Ball (I like more than Z, but Z is top on the count it got me into animé), can't go wrong with come Cowboy Bebop and I'm currently started watching Steins; Gate.

Also, Redline was awesome! I love watching anime like that. Been trying to watch Paprika for 6 years. Always forgot. But now I have it ready to watch.

I don't know if I'm more impressed that you're posting, or that you have Bakemonogatari in your Top 5 lmao.

@Strafe Prower:@Supreme Marvel: Yeah, I've just never heard of it.

@ReVamp: Put it on your to do list. It's seriously worth the time.

@ReVamp said:

@Supreme Marvel said:

Bad thing is, there is a site for this, but there are more fans of animé/manga on this site that even post on AniméVice. :/

I saw someone post Sword Art Online, I'm enjoying that. Got a friend into it before also.

Although I haven't kept up with it, I'd suggest Eureka Seven: Astral Ocean. Dusk Maiden of Amnesia. Bakemonogatari (In my top 5), Tenchi Muyo: Rho Ohki (top 2). Dragon Ball (I like more than Z, but Z is top on the count it got me into animé), can't go wrong with come Cowboy Bebop and I'm currently started watching Steins; Gate.

Also, Redline was awesome! I love watching anime like that. Been trying to watch Paprika for 6 years. Always forgot. But now I have it ready to watch.

I don't know if I'm more impressed that you're posting, or that you have Bakemonogatari in your Top 5 lmao.

I'd go for the former. I love the world of Bakemonogatari. I had a gif years ago on ComicLedger of this...