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Inception 8/10 Finally got around to watching this. I had meant to for ages, and the outline made me think of Paprika. However it was a very different beast overall. Generally I liked it. It was clever and quite fun. However in places it seemed woefully undeveloped. We get no backstory of...

Don't worry girls, explosions fix everything! - Nabeshin

Keep an eye on Picture House Cinemas. I've seen several Ghibli films there and they do occasionally repeat older ones. (I saw, Cat Returns, Howl's Moving Castle, Earthsea and Ponyo at Mine, they also showed Spirited away last year.)

The Escaflowne Soundtrack is great. Quite aside from the orchestral bits, the opening theme, Yokosoku Wa Iranai is one of the best pieces of Jpop I've listened to.

Noein 8.5/10 Always liked the slightly wierd in my Anime, and Noein (Despite this being the second time I've watched it) always manages to make you think. I know people could get put off by the technobabble, but it makes perfect sense to me. If it had a weakness, it may have just gone a...

In a more minor way - Porco Rosso. It is a reasonable film, but I have always considered it Miyazaki's weakest, but a lot consider it one of his best *shrug*

But the series was what everyone praised in the first place...and after watching the series I don't really care about the characters or the plot enough to go any further. Which is my point :P

I've been thinking about the previous times this has come up. (And I know I have had my argument before :P) In my case it is Evangelion. I remember watching it on the Sci Fi block back in about 2002. At the time I was not on the net all that much and certainly not for Anime. To be bluntly honest...

Just about anyone in Excel Saga Osaka from Azumanga, pure class.

Grave of the Fireflies :cry:

Fist of the North Star (And it was my first EVER Anime to boot) I was 14-15 at the time. Didn't really thing it was that good, but I do remember thinking 'yikes, that's a lot of blood' :P

I have managed to see it since then, though only subbed, and I'm one of those few Anime fans who prefers a dub when I can, and the old voices are still in my head even a decade on :P Is that Dvd the old manga dub or is it a sub?

As requested (sorry for quality, only got my phone to hand) I apologise for the mess - My room turns into a natural disaster when I am working on a writing project and that explains all the paperwork on the desk (As well as the map on the wall) And this is not my entire collection. I've got...

Nope, I shall add one now though in the correct thread :)

Haibane Renmei is only from 2002, so pretty modern. ABe's style is a little odd in Serial Experiments Lain, but Haibane looks great. As for the story, it really isn't in a presentable state, but thanks for the comments anyway, nice to get them :)

Was a throughly depressing day for the most part looking at it. Having voted for the Lib Dems at every election since I was allowed to vote (Labour increased tuition fees in my last year of uni, so I knew I was not going to vote for them, and I wouldn't ever vote conservative anyway) I was...

I love all of Kon's stuff, and perfect blue was the first I saw. I really liked it, but it is one of those films which I love but don't rewatch much (Aka, Grave of the Fireflies) However I really got into Kon's stuff when I saw Paranoia Agent, which to me will always be his pinnacle. That said...

Quite simple for me. Anime does and can do things no other genre will even approach. Take Haibane Renmei, one of my faves. It has almost no action, no love story, is outwardly very mellow, inwardly creates a million questions. No other format in the world could do something quite like that.

Well I said 'Introduced by a friend' but actually it was my brother. He is 11 years older than me and was part of the late 80s/early 90s Anime fandom. I remember him literally dragging me, at a rather impressionable 15 years, to sit down and watch the Fist of the North Star film. It was alright...

I'd have to say that was my opinion of the Manga as well, so it isn't anything different there. The second half of the Manga just turned into a plotless and mindless bloodbath though it had one great scene with Seres being immense (Those who have read it will know what I mean) It was a shame...