What happened to the good old Anime's?

Hell Girl is a rather interesting one to watch.

I know there are dozens of great anime that havnt found american mainstream producers to pick up.

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Unfortunately this is true...

I liked Trinity Blood to but it became to complex for its own good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQNipo08ejM Angel Beats is probably the best anime out right now. A lot of the 'older' anime were pretty generic, as well. As anime becomes more mainstream in Japan, the art and production value increases; K-On!! is pretty unique, because of the musical focus; the songs have topped Oricon repeatedly. Don't Say Lazy, Cagayake Girls, GO GO Maniac, and Listen!! all held the number 1 and 2 slots for a few weeks. K-On!! is lighter fare, though. A lot of anime tend to have sophisticated plots, but American attention spans don't ever end up focusing enough to notice; so, we get series of bland shonen anime with similar plot lines and events. Male main hero -> underdog -> does epic things and progresses to a power level over 90000. Over and over and over and over. @____@ And that is shonen anime these days. Which is probably why moeblob anime like K-ON!! are topping charts for viewers, DVD sales, and obsession in Japan.

I really enjoyed Paranoia Agent.

Re: What happened to the good old Anime\'s?What was that old anime that the people lived in a underground city like tokyo and fought giant Angels with mechs. the Angels were evil or something and the city was called Geo or something?
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paranoia agent confused me so bad

Evangelion.

Yeh! Thats it i liked that one to.

Arcwolf09 · #27What was that old anime that the people lived in a underground city like tokyo and fought giant Angels with mechs. the Angels were evil or something and the city was called Geo or something?
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paranoia agent confused me so bad

I loved PA. ;)

ChiuChan · #28Evangelion.

Ahhhhh!!!One of the greatest ever made!![me=ace1o1]falls to his knees in honor of this masterpiece.[/me]But I'd die for Eureka.

I never finished it unfortunately i stopped like when fights her twin or something like that.

Oh, yeah. CANAAN is a pretty good anime. It's got a really complex (but not complex to the point where you have to ponder it, just complex in the way that it's WELL developed, and like, novel like) storyline, with excellent characters, amazing fightscenes, and quality voice acting. It's girls with guns. Speaking of Girls With Guns, Madlax was pretty good, along with Gunslinger Girl and Gunslinger Girl Il Teatrino. CANAAN was pretty tops in terms of smooth animation and great fight scenes. Everything was fluid -- no fancy lines in the background to narrate an action. And then, if you can stand rampant fan-service and pantyshots, there's Ikkitousen. It's got amazing fight scenes, a good general plot, but lots and lots of girl on girl action (which is never a bad thing) but sometimes it distracts from the plot with all of it's wet panties and nip-slips.

ace1o1Just to name a few of the lame ones, Bleach, Naruto, Boboboboboboboooblebolegoladoo, and some others.I really love Eureka Seven and The Big O. Anime need more than just people and swords. They need a plot and a deeper meaning.

Really??? Doubt you've even watched it...

We don't mean to put Bleach down but it is what it is. i liked it for a while then they just seemed to keep a sinking ship from sinking all the way.

There is a modicum of plot to Bleach, but it's generally the same and pretty predictable.
It's not a masterful plotline, but it's there.

I hate anime where you know the characters arn't going to die and you know this and so you can predict the outcome.

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That's pretty much every show/series/movie in existence. The number of stories where the "good guy dies" are few and far in between.

Re: What happened to the good old Anime\'s?yeh i no but i like at least when they get hurt lol
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Hey Scruffy lol i like that show

In CANAAN, people die. Red Garden, etc. Just stay away from shonen if you don't want predictable plots. lul.In Angel Beats, due to the nature of the plot, the characters do die (everyone's died at least once, I think), but because it's the after life, the death scenes hardly have meaning. The scenes where they pass on, however, do have meaning, and the scenes that show their life before going to heaven are pretty emotional, including the death scenes; all of the characters had bad lives, and died in horrible ways while young. I just finished watching the 8th episode~ Yuri finally won against Angel. :3

Arcwolf09I kinda liked Full metal Alchemist though it hardly made sense.

Yay for FMA Brotherhood.Sadly the art is inconsistent. In some cases you'll think "Wow I don't remember the art looking this good and fluid"Then in some other cases "Wow this looks off" the last episode was really off, like ugh.Story's still entertaining and it's totally based off the manga so it makes much more sense so far.