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grovemaster
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Ever watch an anime or read a manga which really pulled some heartstrings, prevented you from getting sleep at night, or temporarily (or permanently) altered your views of the world? Write about it here!
For me here are a few: Gantz: extreme emotions before death kept me up at night Mnemosyne: messed with my head Rave Master manga: I could not watch anime or read manga for a few days after finishing this because it was so good (especially in the last 5 or 6 volumes). Haibane Renmei: wonderful Christian moral {EDIT: Don't make consecutive posts like that, especially when they could easily be combined into one post. Include your own opinion in the opening post. Also, I question whether this idea is sufficiently different from other similar threads to warrant allowing it, but we'll see how things play out. - Key} |
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polemon
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Neon Genesis Evangelion.
I watched it in 2002 or so for the first time. Before that, I didn't care about Anime at all. But after I've seen this, I consider Anime art. At least some movies or series. It really messed with my head, but in a good way. |
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joceyjoce
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Death Note was the anime probably made me scream, cry, yell, and other stuff to my wits end. I love death note but i cant handle the second part when L's successor is chosen because i know whats going to happen to Light (Kira) after that. I hate it. It make me so sad. I loved Light so much, but yes, this one was stuck on my head for days and probably weeks
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DuelLadyS
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Melody of Oblivion comes immedately to mind... it's got just enough weird symbolism going on to get you thinking about it, but not enough to really convince you it means anything. It was sort of the mental equivalent of stirring up the crud on the bottom of the fishtank, but not actually cleaning it up... you just feel oddly muddled.
Kino's Journey, on the other hand, was a wonderful little series of fables that got you thinking about the human condition and why we do the things we do, often for hours (or days) after the fact. I still find myself randomly musing on the episodes with the guys working on the railroad tracks and the travelers stuck in the snow (aka, the one with the rabbits.) |
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Penguin_Factory
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I'll admit I'm a fairly sensitive guy- I can get very emotionally caught up in stuff I watch or read to the extent that it affects me for a long time afterwards. Strangely, anime doesn't tend to have that effect on me, but there are some exceptions:
Evangelion: The classic emotion-screw anime, for good reason. I won't say much about this since everyone else has already mentioned it, but the final scene of End of Evangelion stayed with me weeks. Figure 17: I watched the first episode of this and then went out and looked up spoilers online because I had to know what happened to the characters right then and there- the thought of waiting for all of the DVDs to come out was unbearable. Also, sitting through the 10th episode was like suffering an emotional kidney punch. spoiler[Watching a 10 year old girl sink into depression is not something I particularly want to experience ever again, okay Japan?] Spirited Away: A minor example, but the bit where Chihiro first realises she has to stay in the spirit world and work for Yubaba was very effective at showing a feeling of homesickness and sudden isolation.
What was the moral? I'm a big fan of Haibane Renmei and I've never gotten a very moralistic vibe from it (although since I'm not a Christian I'm obviously I'm not viewing it with the same mindset).
The episode that really made me sith back and think was the "land of peace" one. The episode really made me see shades of grey and different sides to the story when I didn't really want to. spoiler[Genocide] is an issue that we tend to view in a pretty straight forward "one side is right and the other is wrong", but this story shows that seperating people into victim and perpetrator isn't always the same as seperating them into good and evil. Plus, the end of the episode was one of the few times where Kino really gets upset about something. |
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zawa113
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Oh man, the first one that came to mind is Legend of the Galactic Heroes in which I could never decide which side was good or which was bad and I would change my mind about who I wanted to win any given battle between every five minutes, every three ship explosions, or every other episode. But I think I know partly why too, I'll just let a quote from Yang Wen-li explain this: "There are few wars between good and evil; most are between one good and another good" which mostly made me keep going back and forth between who I thought was currently more evil in the series and I still can't come up with a good answer for which side is evil, if either, or which side is good, if either. I mean, this isn't like DBZ where which side to cheer for is pretty obvious, this is the type of show where you can't even predict yourself how you'll react to any given situation or what you'll think of it, which is part of what I think made LoGH so great and also why it messed with my head so much. And no matter which side I was currently considering to be more evil, I still really liked the mains anyway because I knew in about three episodes that I might consider them to be the good guys again. Therefore almost every battle and every death made me feel both joy and sorrow because both a good guy and a bad guy was dying at the same time. Except maybe for spoiler[Kessling], I thought he was a bad guy pretty much the entire time and I could say the same thing for the spoiler[Earth Terraists], but I'm mostly talking about the Yang Fleet vs Reinhard's Fleet and all the characters associated with their sides directly and I must agree with Yang that in retrospect they were both the good side and yet I know that that can't be quite true ARGH!
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Player No. 3
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For psychological screw: Alien Nine. The aliens expose Yumi to a variety of psychological torture, reducing her and her teammates to sobbing wrecks by spoiler[episode two. Not to mention that in episode four, Kasumi tries to choke Kumi to death. Also, that ending with Kumi spatterted in blood had me staring at my TV with an open mouth. ] And they're only in the 6th grade!
For emotions:
I was going to say another anime, but then I remembered this episode. I agree that episode (and spoiler[the genocide one ]mentioned earlier) both had me shaken, but may I also mention the spoiler[slave trader ]episode. When I saw that one, spoiler[I was jarred at when Kino opens the caravan and finds the remains of the body.] |
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DuskyPredator
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What comes to mind is Clannad After Story, got a little bit too attached and it felt like I ended up being stabbed in the heart, TWICE. Few things have left me to cry in the shower, but After Story did it, I loved the show but at certain times I really hated the creators. Made Air relativly easier then it could have been, but I still couldn't resist having tears streek down my face, now I am trying not to think about it
I prevent myself from thinking about it as i probably could make myself cry and feel depressed by thinking of certain parts |
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TheTheory
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A few fairly obvious answers here, all regarding the "heart" part of the prompt.
Fullmetal Alchemist has some of my most emotionally responsive moments that I have seen. A part of it has to do with death--but even more so it has to do with certain character's ability to mess with life. The whole series just messed with me, causing me to fly through the 50-odd episodes in record time. Haibane Renmei stands up with FMA as one of my favorite series. It has a slow progression from a bright, safe atmosphere into a damnably dark place. This progression allows for the viewer to identify with the main character and to feel her pain and confusion at what is going. Saikano is a romance--a genre that I often emotionally interact with more than other genres, probably due to my own inadequacies in this area. Regardless, I just loved the portrayal of the beginning stages of the relationship between the two main characters. The various tragedies that the characters have to endure hit all of the right buttons for me--I connect with feelings of isolation and the desperate need to escape. Now, series mess with my head as well--but never to such iconic extents as when it involves the heart. If I was to go over head-screwings I'm sure Paranoia Agent (and other Satoshi Kon productions) and Elfen Lied would both make the cut. But I won't bother adding them--great series, but didn't leave the same level of imprint upon me. |
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HaruhiToy
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This isn't my place but I'm glad you came down on the side of not locking this thread. My reason is that the question in the title gets right down to why any adult should be watching anime at all. When I was a teenager an actress friend taught me that if you see an actor on stage that gives you the creeps -- that's the sign of a good actor. Its the same with any performance art such as anime or opera or Shakespeare. My current on-topic example would be Death Note. I have only watched the first episodes -- then I moved the rest of the DVDs way down on my Netflix queue. I'll finish the whole thing eventually but right now I don't want to deal with it. Both Light and L are fully despicable creatures, but if you watch you are forced to consider what you would do in either of their situations. Not only to survive but to justify your own actions. I could add a couple of other titles to the ist, but A=any performance art that can get you into that mindset is worth watching. |
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The Dreaming Void
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not really any, but if i would have to say one, it would be Elfen Lied, i found it so awesome and great (because of the large amounts of flying body parts and blood), that i was depressed the next day over finishing it...i believe that Elfen Lied is also the reason i always keep looking for new anime...i currently have a list of about 80 anime i want to watch or am watching *sigh*
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Treiz
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I think one of the most affecting anime that I've seen was Nadesico and the movie Nadesico Prince of Darkness. Both have a way of lulling you into complacency with humor, than busting a hay-maker in your gut with no warning: spoiler[The part where Gay gets shot, the shelter on mars, Tsukumo Shiratori, What happens to Akito and Yurika in the movie, etc etc]
The movie especially got to me, it's really difficult to see characters that you come to love go through such hardship. |
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kilaria
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One anime that had a deep impact on me was Revolutionary Girl Utena. The ending was so unexpected and so extreme. You watch the entire season experiencing how Utena and Anthy's relationship grows and develops and then your heart breaks as you watch spoiler[Anthy stab Utena. Despite that, Utena still fights for her, not caring about herself.] It had me in tears.
Another anime that affected me was Wolf's Rain. Another tear jerker for me (I don't cry easily btw, these two are the only anime that have made me cry). The wolves had such dedication, such faith that they would find their Paradise. The struggles between the characters and the deep friendships that they end up creating touched my heart. I think Tsume touched me the most being someone who tried to act like he didn't care when really deep down he cared the most. There are others, but these are the ones that I found myself becoming most emotionally attached to throughout the entire series. I didn't chose them just because they made me cry. If I wasn't emotionally attached to the characters and their story, i would not have shed a tear for them as the stories ran their course. 
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grovemaster
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I'll clear up that Christian moral issue you were unclear on. The riddle posed in Haibane Renmei is this: "He who says he has no sin HAS sin. But he who acknowledges his sin has no sin." In the anime, the person acknowledges his sin and gets some help (close friend) to help him out, thus absolving the sin (think Rekka and the smoker in the final episode). In Christianity, God absolves your sins because you can't do it on your own (think about Christian salvation). |
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Niomo
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This. But spoiler[they made everything right in the end, Go Nagisa Rez arc, GO!] |
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