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puppetmaker) wrote2010-12-07 09:36 am
puppetmaker) wrote2010-12-07 09:36 am
My Anime Roots
There is a live action version of Battleship Yamato aka Starblazers that is showing in Japan. There is rumor that it might come to the US next year. I’d buy a ticket to it in a heartbeat. Starblazers is my early Anime. Also there is a CGI version of Harlock that there has been a teaser trailer to that I so want to see.
It was TBS I think before it was TBS and I was in high school. TBS starting showing Battle of the Planets/G-Force (Gatchaman), Star Blazers (Battleship Yamato), later that horrible mash-up of Queen of 1000 years and Captain Harlock (Captain Harlock and the Queen of 1000 years), and Robotech (which is a mish-mash of a couple of series). Those were my first shows. I liked the animation but loved the sweeping story lines which wasn’t really done in American cartoons which tended to be done in one.
Through conventions, Bill Ritch, and my college anime club I was introduced to Vampire Hunter D, Project Ako, Akira, Moblesuit Gundam, and My Youth in Arcadia among many other series. I found that I preferred the series with the convoluted storylines rather than the robot battles. I loved Vampire Hunter D and all the lovely artwork that came out of it. (Remember kids this is before the age of the Internet so finding things was difficult and expensive.)
Since then I have drifted in and out of anime. I have enjoyed Bleach, Full Metal Alchemist, Witch Hunter Robin, and any Miyazaki had a hand in. Ariel grew up with Sailor Moon and Pokemon. Caroline enjoys those and Bakugan (which she learned to play in New Zealand), Sugar, and other anime that Ariel enjoys.
I am still on the look out for a copy of Arcadia of my youth: Endless Orbit SSX but no luck so far. I am also on the look out for things I might not have seen yet that people think are good.
So what do you like in animeland? Or even good US series (Symbiotic Titan rules!) with an anima twist?
I am grateful that I found Anime when I did.
It was TBS I think before it was TBS and I was in high school. TBS starting showing Battle of the Planets/G-Force (Gatchaman), Star Blazers (Battleship Yamato), later that horrible mash-up of Queen of 1000 years and Captain Harlock (Captain Harlock and the Queen of 1000 years), and Robotech (which is a mish-mash of a couple of series). Those were my first shows. I liked the animation but loved the sweeping story lines which wasn’t really done in American cartoons which tended to be done in one.
Through conventions, Bill Ritch, and my college anime club I was introduced to Vampire Hunter D, Project Ako, Akira, Moblesuit Gundam, and My Youth in Arcadia among many other series. I found that I preferred the series with the convoluted storylines rather than the robot battles. I loved Vampire Hunter D and all the lovely artwork that came out of it. (Remember kids this is before the age of the Internet so finding things was difficult and expensive.)
Since then I have drifted in and out of anime. I have enjoyed Bleach, Full Metal Alchemist, Witch Hunter Robin, and any Miyazaki had a hand in. Ariel grew up with Sailor Moon and Pokemon. Caroline enjoys those and Bakugan (which she learned to play in New Zealand), Sugar, and other anime that Ariel enjoys.
I am still on the look out for a copy of Arcadia of my youth: Endless Orbit SSX but no luck so far. I am also on the look out for things I might not have seen yet that people think are good.
So what do you like in animeland? Or even good US series (Symbiotic Titan rules!) with an anima twist?
I am grateful that I found Anime when I did.
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(Anonymous) 2010-12-07 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)Oh man, that all just took me right back.
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