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Ojamajo LimePie
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Does original Gundam count if I saw it in movie trilogy form? I'm gonna say it counts.
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v1cious
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Even Cowboy Bebop? |
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#861208
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There are a few things on that list that everyone should watch... if they like hard SF, regardless of whether or not they like anime.
Aside from the hard SF things and Cardcaptor Sakura, most of the rest is garbage. There's no reason anyone should consider Tenchi a "classic" (old does not automatically mean "classic"). And I'm a bit ashamed to have bubbled in "all" for Love Hina. |
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CrownKlown
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Are you for real? Tenchi along with Urusei Yatsura and Ranma 1/2 are basically what made harem, a very popular genre, popular. By your reasoning, why is Cardcaptor Sakura a classic? I personally loved it when I was younger, and think its still pretty good, but at the same time I doubt anyone who is not a fan of magical girls would really care for it. And what do you mean by hard SF? I don't think any of those shows actually qualify by the definition of hard SF. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_science_fiction |
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st_owly
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I half expected to see Azumanga Daioh and Inuyasha on the poll, but maybe they're too new.
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Ouran High School Dropout
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The manga spends the first eight pages recapping the characters and giving a thumbnail review of some of the narrative of the first two OVAs. But truth be told, actually watching the OVAs is the only real option. |
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Polycell
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TheTsunami
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I have always been lazy about setting aside that 80-120 minutes to do nothing else but watch a movie straight through, though Perfect Blue is actually the last Satoshi Kon movie I have left to watch. |
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Covnam
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Thanks for the confirmation  I figured that was the more likely scenario, but didn't want to say for sure.
Azumanga's anime would be the newest thing on the list (2002), but that's still not very new. I would definitely consider it a classic example of a 4 koma based show and a progenitor to many later 4 koma shows, but I'm not sure I'd consider it a classic along the lines of Dragon ball or Sailor Moon, in that it has staying power and still influences many later stories. You're not very likely to see a parody or reference to it in a recent show like you may most of the others on this list for instance. |
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Kadmos1
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An anime story I would like to see is 1 of those space westerns except it's a harem. It would be a harem where the main harem girl falls under the First Girl Wins/Lucky Childhood Friend tropes.
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EmperorBrandon
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There's a number of those titles where I have seen such a huge chunk (I think I've seen almost all of Dragon Ball and original Gundam, and with Rurouni Kenshin I saw all that aired on Toonami) that "Some" feels like a big understatement, but had to chose it anyway because I certainly hadn't seen absolutely all of them. The titles that were a "No" for me are Ghost in the Shell film, Perfect Blue, Dirty Pair, Fist of the North Star, and Love Hina. With Lupin III, I've seen what aired of Part II on Adult Swim. The rest are all are a definite "Yes".
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Reckon your Google search was just being sheepish about it... |
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Joe Mello
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I disagree. I think there are various tropes and techniques that somewhat define the "anime style," and if a show from the US or Europe (or anywhere else) deliberately invokes those elements, I think it's a disservice to the conversation to avoid referencing anime when describing that show. |
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relyat08
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You can reference anime, and look like some anime. Or what some people think of as this nebulous "anime style". That's not the problem, nor what my point actually was(this quote is out of context). Anime, as a whole, does not fit within a style. There are many styles within it and their variations are great enough to discredit the anime style as being anything that can make something anime. Or on the flip-side, make something not-anime. Styles, of course, do exist, but they aren't the determining feature of anime. I think it is arrogant and far too simplistic to try to pigeonhole anime into a style, which is why I dislike the term "anime style". |
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Spawn29
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I enjoy Wild Arms because I found it to be a funny show. I never played the games, but I feel like that you don't need to be a fan of something to like something or dislike something.
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